Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!bmacintyre From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking vs MultiFinder (was Amy 68030 vs Mac IIcx) Keywords: Oranges are better than Apples. Message-ID: <21904@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 12 Mar 90 22:49:15 GMT References: <3137@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 21 consp11@bingsunm.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes: >> [...] >> Does AmyOs multitask as well as Multifinder? Are most Amy programs >> pretty reliable when multi-tasking? >> [...] > >This is the only question of the bunch that I can answer of the few you asked, >but I must say, quite simply, that Apple's MultiFinder is a joke, basically >because the hardware itself is still not capable of true multitasking. Say what? Yes, MultiFinder doesn't multitask, it "switches" between applications. _BUT_, where in the world did you come up with a conclusion that the *hardware* can't multitask?!?! The OS, perhaps, but _not_ the hardware. The MacII harware is _at_least_ as capable of multitasking as the Amiga hardware, considering the processor, etc. -- -- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student ) -- bmacintyre@{watcgl, watdragon, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} -- Date, verb: prearranged socializing with intent.