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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking revisited
Keywords: primitive ape like beings, digital watches
Message-ID: <7614@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 16:23:12 GMT
References: <8908041840.AA00412@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <4522@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10977@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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In article <10977@watcgl.waterloo.edu> wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn) writes:
>I would kill for
>a good task switching mechanism (and enough memory to use it), but the
>kind of multitasking that is beyond the ability of a good task switcher
>(eg. Multi-Finder) would be a scarcely used luxury.

Seriously ?  Interesting.  I find my most frequently used instance
of 'user level' multitasking is reading news while a compile is taking
place, or when I'm doing a raytrace.

(the second instance is opening another shell to get a directory
of a disk I'm about to write all over :-)  )

On a lower level, there's lots more going on; UUPC, NFS,
I don't notice those unless I need them though)

			andy
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