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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: OS9 on Amiga
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Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 20:04:59 EDT
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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.


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