Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga Message-ID: <2248@ukma.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 20:04:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2248 Posted: Sat Sep 28 20:04:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 00:43:19 EDT References: <576@sftig.UUCP> <1001@bnl44.UUCP> <2011@amdahl.UUCP> <1005@bnl44.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.micro.68k:1156 net.micro.amiga:249 In article <1005@bnl44.UUCP> jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) writes: >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. Printing while doing something else is multitasking. Spooling isn't the operation of printing, it is the process of queueing files to print. -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA