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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
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 22:10:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 01:42:07 EDT
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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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
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