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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <6902@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 18:50:59 GMT
References: <17183@usc.edu> <4679@okstate.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4679@okstate.UUCP> norman@a.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) writes:
>say this. I'm convinced that the phrase "true multitasking" was invented
>by a computer-illiterate computer-journalist who didn't know how
>to effectively contrast preemptive and nonpreemptive scheduling.

Personally, I think the term "true multitasking" was invented
the first time a programmer tried to explain to a marketing
person why an interrupt driven keyboard routine didn't qualify
as "multitasking", so he really shouldn't put it in the ads. :-)

You know, maybe we should widen the definitions...
I can see it now...Commodore had multitasking on the first PET :-)
And, counting the graphics coprocessor as well as the 6502 in the
keyboard, the Amiga is fully multiprocessing as well. :-)


		andy
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