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Article #29717Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
From: James Jones
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1987 15:42
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1987 15:42
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In article <323@lakesys.UUCP>, mark@lakesys.UUCP (Mark Storin) writes: > If all he ever needs is simple word processing or file keeping then he can > find those in the simplest of computers (8-bit machines like Apples and > Atari's)... I agree with Mr. Storin's main point fully, and moreover think that Joe Average will, unless he's very careful, actually *learn* something about what his computer can do and take advantage of multitasking eventually, but--I think that a visit to a friend or neighbor with a CoCo 3 running OS-9 will show that one can have multitasking on an 8-bit machine. (Much less a visit to a place with a dozen folks hacking merrily away on a Gimix 6809-based computer.) James Jones
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcrware!jejones From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare... Message-ID: <583@mcrware.UUCP> Date: 24 Dec 87 15:42:12 GMT References: <2168@crash.cts.com> <3256@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <323@lakesys.UUCP> Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia. Lines: 14 Summary: uh, about those "8-bit machines..."