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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WSJ, Amiga, System 7.0 (Was 7.0)
Summary: Mistaken?
Message-ID: <17425@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 20:16:20 GMT
References: <17148@usc.edu>
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Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science,
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""publicized features of OS/2 and Unix. For example, OS/2 .. allows different 
""programs, such as a spreadsheet, database and communication program, to 
""update one another with fresh information automatically [a very "interesting"
""way of defining multitasking]. System 7.0 will also allow that".
""
""Interesting. I have been using a system with such features, an Amiga,  since 
""1985.

I believe they are talking not about multitaksing, but about "hot" or "smart"
links.  They literally mean what they said, you update a spreadsheet, and
it is updated in the page-layout document you placed it into last week;
you modify, say in MS Word, a status report document, and its changes are
automatically reflected on your boss's machine, in his/her department status
document.  Amiga has no such thing, nor will it likely have it soon (an angry,
former-Amiga-now-Mac owner's FLAME).


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)