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From: dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the future?
Message-ID: <147@sdeggo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 22:05:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 22:05:10 1987
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In article <3445@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
 franka@mmintl writes:
 > > Another trend...                     ...is that towards individual
 > > (single-user) computers.  The future of multi-tasking on such machines is
 > > very much in question...
 > 99% of the rest of the computers will be "general purpose" and all of
 > them will be running multitasking.  

I agree with John,  however the ideal towards which we are striving is multi-
tasking operating systems and single-tasking processors.  Admit it, don't
you hate having your processor multi-task?
-- 
David L. Smith
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