Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!mgardi
From: mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <5560@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 89 22:09:28 GMT
References: <2225@van-bc.UUCP> <89581@sun.uucp> <6405@dayton.UUCP>
Reply-To: mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Normally, I take the multitasking of the Amiga for granted.  One time, I
was un-Zooing an archive file and it asked me if I wanted to overwrite
an existing "ReadMe" file.  Not knowing what the previous file contained,
I started a new CLI; typed the file; then copied to another file name because
it was important.  I then wentack to Zoo and told it to overwrite "ReadMe".

A couple of days later and the same thing happens at work on my PS/2
Model 60.  My only alternative was to skip the file, then restart Zoo
just to extract the ReadMe file.  Normally that's not too much bother,
but it just goes to show you the fundamental difference.

PS.  I've got the official release of OS/2 PM 1.1 and SideKick for presentation
manager.  It's running on the 60 with 80 Meg of disk, 3 megs of Ram and it was
auto-installed.  The calendar function of SK is pretty neat, but it takes 
1 minute and 10 seconds to start from the time I click on it's name.  

Give me a break.