Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl44.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm From: jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga Message-ID: <1005@bnl44.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 18:14:34 EDT Article-I.D.: bnl44.1005 Posted: Tue Sep 24 18:14:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:34:02 EDT References: <576@sftig.UUCP> <1001@bnl44.UUCP> <2011@amdahl.UUCP> Lines: 26 Xref: linus net.micro.68k:1077 net.micro.amiga:4071 >>... 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 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. 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 ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm jpm@BNL44.ARPA "MS-DOS is a communist plot"