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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Multitasking
Keywords: keyboard,keystroke,keychain,keyhole
Message-ID: <2259@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 17:36:15 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In some article somewhere, someone writes:

>
>>Maybe, maybe not.  OS/9 has been around for a long time on coco's, Atari's,
>>pc's etc.  Anyway well a lot of people always talk about multitasking, I
>>just don't think it is such a killer feature.  Just look at all the Apple,
>>IBM sales.  It seems that most people are willing to live without multitasking
>>or settle for a limited form of multitasking.  So while multitasking is a
>>definite plus, I doult if it is the reason for people to buy the Amiga over
>>something else.   

    Well, it was the ONLY reason I chose the Amiga over the Atari
    ST.  I debated about which one to buy (I have friends who have
    both machines), but multitasking was the feature that sold me.

Then Dave Scroggins writes:

>This is true ONLY if they have not used multitasking machines to any
>extent. (in MY opinion) I find that when I have to go to a non multitasking,
>or multitasking windowless system things are painfully more tedious to do.

>I'm not sure which I like better about the AMIGA -- the graphics or the
>multitasking.

    I am teaching C on a Vax here at work, and I know *nothing*
    about VMS.  I don't know how or *if* it's possible to start up
    another process in VMS. (nor do I care ;-)
    I have about 12 students, and about 25 terminals.  After one
    class of painful waiting for the linker on the Vax, many of my
    students have learned a neat trick:

    Compile and link on one terminal (about a 3 minute process - yes
    about as slow as compiling C on an Amiga off floppies), and then
    move over to another terminal and log into it, and use the
    editor while the linker does it's work.

    Think my students would appreciate multitasking? 



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