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In article <22885@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil
(Christopher Ruckman) wrote:
> 
> It's only useful to have *hardware* capable of multi-tasking if you have
> *thinking skills* capable of multi-tasking.  There are plenty of folks
> for whom using one program at a time is nearly overwhelming, let alone
> switching between several.  Buy them a 486-50 with all the slick Windows
> app's you want, and they'll be so intimidated they'll go back to the
> typewriter.

The arguement that people can only use one program at a time is really
weak.  Even among this group of people, they want to be able to print in
the background.  Smooth background printing is very difficult to do if you
don't have a multi-tasking system.

Multi-tasking is something the people grow into.  People using computer are
trained not to be able to multi-task.  In real life, most people multi-task
all the time.  Once the OS smoothly supports multi-tasking, most people
adapt to it fairly quickly.

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