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From: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A new Amiga from Japan?
Message-ID: <21527@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 90 21:56:05 GMT
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Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
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In article <5366@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> waynekn@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
<> Ummm, could you give us some examples of the sort of things that were
<> running on the FM Towns that is beyond the current state of the art of
<> Amiga technology?  
<
<Glad you asked.  Outside of the Multi-Tasking (which I consider VERY
<minor and VERY easy to add) I believe that everything I've said is true.

I don't see how multitasking can be considered minor *or* easy to add.
Look at the MS-DOS world and the MAC for examples of just how easy it is
to add multitasking to a machine after-the-fact.  It's not easy at all.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu