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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <391@antares.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 08:53:50 GMT
References: <2225@van-bc.UUCP> <715@helios.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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I ran into one effective demo of multitasking by accident.  While showing
off to some friends, I started up an early version of Tomas Rokicki's LIFE
program.  You know, the one that can only be stopped by putting the mouse
in the middle of the left edge of the screen.  Well, I didn't know how to
stop it a the time, so I just left it and started something else.  Several
demos later, I pulled down the front screen and there was LIFE, and obviously
compute bound process still running while the Speech Demo was talking and
the CLI was LISTing.

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