Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Mac Message-ID: <5024@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 05:33:39 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.5024 Posted: Sun Aug 18 05:33:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 21:17:05 EDT References: <495@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <495@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tecot@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Edward Tecot) writes: > It ran two processes simultaneously and they took four >times as long as if the processes had been run consecutively. Some >multitasking; it's there, but no one will want to use it. I WOULD! When I use the Mac, I usually use the Switcher with the following configuration: Finder, a terminal emulator, and an application. If the application were one that has to think for any period of time, I would want to be able to use the emulator while it is running. Or, while transfering a file in the emulator I would like to be able to run the application or Finder. In either case, the fact that the system slows down a little is not important, since the emulator is mostly I/O bound anyway. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar