Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!AECLCR.BITNET!01659 From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: My last comments about ST multitasking Message-ID: <8908160401.AA01009@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 04:01:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 I wish that some of the people who read and reply to net postings would actually take the time to understand what they have read. As an example, one reply about my original posting about MT on the ST went on-and-on about the move towards MT in the industry; hey!, I was NOT against MT, just puzzled why anyone would want it on a system like an 68000 at 8 MHz. In addition, so many postings came back giving examples of MT when they were just glorified task switching examples. MT to me means doing several CPU intensive jobs at the same time. It's not the ability to format a disk while you type in your word processor. It's not switching out of some game to do some spreadsheet work. It's not swapping data between painting programs. Those are all task switching examples. MT is controlling some lab equipment while at the same time several users log on and do word processing and someone else is generating a database report. Look, I can format floppies from within all my ST applications, I can run a word processor, a spreadsheet and a painting program at the same time and switch between them. I can ask REVOLVER to 'rollout' a memory partition to disk. BUT, when I want to crank out dbMAN reports from my databases (one is almost 4 megabytes), I don't want to slow down my 68000 by using another application at all. I want the dbMAN stuff out asap. I reitierate, I am not anti-multitasking and I this is not a case of sour grapes (that's for you Amiga guys). I'll just wait until I can afford a machine that's got the guts to do real multitasking. Anybody understand the following? NO IFBMS NO AMIFGAS NO MFACS NO WFAY