🚀 go-pugleaf

Hey guys, I hope you can help me out.  I've been admiring the Amiga
for some time now, but circumstances are pushing me towards the MAC.
Well, I refuse to buy a machine as limited as the Plus/SE series, but
the MAC IIcx looks great to me.  Some questions.

What is a multifinder?  As near as I can tell it fakes multitasking by
suspending processes in memory.  Is this all there is to it?  If I
start compiling a program, and want to start up MacWrite to write a
letter while I wait (or maybe I'm uploading someones 40 Meg HD via
modem, whatever), will the background task (compiler/terminal) halt
and wait?  Would the modem bomb?

While I was playing w/ a IIx, the machine freaked, to the point I had
to turn power off to restore it.  While I'm sure this was a bad
program (not machines fault) is this common?  Amigas have all sorts of
rules to live by in order to multitask it programs, could the Macs
recent intro of MultiFinder make all sorts of programs useless?

I will get a color monitor.  How well is color supported?  Even if my
256 colors wind up just painting backgrounds, I want it, But I think
color is the greatest.  IMHO

The standard Mac RGB has no composite (RCA type) inputs.  Is there a
device/interface to allow me to connect a VCR to turn the screen into
a TV?  I will be pissed if I pay $600 and still have to by a color TV.
After all, I wont watch TV and work simultaneously.  Not supplying
these connectors is silly.  Of course, they did us the favor of
internalizing all adjustments (incl power!), so this might be a big
Pain.

And what about A/UX?  I heard its a weak implementation, but the Amiga
version wasnt supposed to be great either.  Anyway, does it access
Mac/OS programs, or does it require separate disks.  One of my last
remaining nits of Macs is the lack of a CLI, since only so much can be
done with Icons.

				Sorry bout the length
					paul
-- 
"Run, Run, as fast as you can, you cant catch me, Im the gingerbread man"
"Lets do some crimes. Yeah, lets get sushi and not pay"               
                                                           6  6          
Witting@topaz.rutgers.edu                                  `--'