Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga Message-ID: <816@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 22:10:04 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.816 Posted: Sat Sep 28 22:10:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 01:42:07 EDT References: <576@sftig.UUCP> <1001@bnl44.UUCP> <2011@amdahl.UUCP> <1005@bnl44.UUCP> Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto Lines: 46 Xref: utcs net.micro.68k:1156 net.micro.amiga:248 Summary: "Double the Cost"? In article <1005@bnl44.UUCP> jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) writes: >>>... My personal opinion is that the mass market does not >>>need multitasking, and won't want to pay extra money to get it. As a >>>programmer I want multitasking, but that doesn't mean the majority of people >>>buying these types of systems do. >> >>My wife is not a 'computer type'. She has used both a Mac and a Lisa >>at work (at Apple...) and has complained to me that the Mac can't >>print while editing, etc. while the Lisa can. I think the average >>person DOES need multitasking, they just don't know it by that name. >> >>Try asking some friends if they would like their computer to be able >>to print and chew gum at the same time ... > >Printing while doing something else is best calling SPOOLING, and is not >the same as the ability to run any arbitrary set of programs at the same Spooling is multi tasking. Especially when you are printing text you just finished editing from a word processor while you are updating your database manager. Sometimes multi-tasking is done on the application level, but it's more useful on the system *and* application levels combined. Know what the terminology you bandy about means. >time. Would your wife be willing to spend twice as much of her own money >on a computer just to get multitasking? That is the real question. Unless the Amiga or Atari come down in price to about $100.00, I don't see how multi-tasking *or even multi-user* could "double the price". See the postings on OS-9 and Unix by myself and others 'here'. >Multitasking is nice, but do the majority of people need it so badly that >they will spend twice as much to get it? I don't think so. >-- > > John McNamee Cheers! -- Jim O. BIX: jimomura Compuserve 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6 -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura