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Article #29674Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
From: Andy Finkel
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1987 21:18
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1987 21:18
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In article <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) writes:
>I can't think of *any* two tasks which I do on my home machine which
>take enough time to make m/p profitable, and which could co-exist sensibly
>with only two floppy drives. I suspect (OPINION, MINE, MY VERY OWN) that
>the same is true of the usage patterns of MOST home machines -- and, again,
>I emphasize that I think this present group is unrepresentative, and very
>much a minority.
Except of course, the classic FORMAT a diskette while the terminal
program is downloading the file to the ramdisk, or make a backup
disk before saving the massive changes you just made to your novel...
Or run a terminal program and a word processor at the same time,
and produce well formatted answers as you read a BBS.
I'm biased, though. No way would I want to go back to a single tasking
computer for anything.
--
andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
a rigged demo."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!amdcad!sun!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare... Message-ID: <2959@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 87 21:18:24 GMT References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 27