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Article #2781Multitasking on the ST
From: Greg Csullog
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 18:24
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 18:24
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It drives me nuts to see so many people worrying about multitasking on the ST. Jeez, at 8 MHz on a 68000 without a co-processor, I'm having trouble getting good performance running one application at a time. If a CPU intensive app is running, I do not want to make it crawl any slower by asking the CPU to service another application. Hell, most people crave multitasking but until you have a 68030 and a co-processor or a 80386 and a co-processor, it ain't worth worrying about for 99% of the users. Want to run a word processor and a spreadsheet at the same time. No problem, get REVOLVER and switch between apps. Want to generate huge dbMAN reports and run .CMD files while executing another CPU intensive app - forget it! Jumping between apps is OK on the ST. Running multiple, CPU intensive apps is silly. Yep the Amiga has multi-tasking; how many people REALLY benefit from it (I know this will spark a "look at me" response but I'm talking widespread use of multitasking, not isolated examples)?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!AECLCR.BITNET!01659 From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Multitasking on the ST Message-ID: <8908021826.AA05333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Aug 89 18:24:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18