Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!dmg 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 Lines: 45 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? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ David Geary, Boeing Aerospace, ~ ~ #define Seattle RAIN ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~