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Article #23220Re: Last time on this one
From: Chris Herborth
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:26
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:26
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In <F7u5wB6w165w@status.gen.nz>, Jon Clarke writes: > If you think about what we have enjoyed on the ST for the last seven > years William is correct in what he says! And, apparently, 90% of the people in comp.sys.atari.st who haven't already left for another platform, don't mind waiting hours for compiles, while they can't do anything else. Over the past two years, I've been looking at all the things that are available for the other platforms. It's _nice_ to be working on something in a nice word processor, and be able to pop open a CLI window, type a few commands, compile something, etc, switch back to the WP while it continues compiling, load up another program to work on a graphic while everything keeps going, etc etc. MiNT won't cut it... The ST is much too slow for multitasking. Just try running GNU C over some code in the background with MiNT... Suddenly your 4M is gone and you can't even load ps to see what's going on. The ST wasn't designed for that sort of abuse. MiNT is an _awesome_ thing, to be able to multitask effectively on this sort of hardware. -- -------------------========================================------------------- Chris Herborth cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca!semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca!cherborth From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Message-ID: <H.ea.QoIbjR2xca_@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> Organization: InterZONE Design Subject: Re: Last time on this one References: <H.ea.7tZUy7WdW&k@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <F7u5wB6w165w@status.gen.nz> Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:26:48 EST Lines: 26