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- From: trreco@ix.netcom.com(Jonathan Pitt )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Amiga Multitasking...yawn
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:22:47 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4h4qtn$96v@cloner3.netcom.com>
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- X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 29 10:22:51 AM PST 1996
-
- Hello Amigians,
-
- PC-weeNEE here....I have been a PC user for VERY long time. Since the
- Amiga came out I always interested. I got one now, an A500 1 meg chip,
- 2megs Fast, WB 2.05, 250megHD .
-
- OK I always heard that one of the Amiga strong point was it's TRUE
- multitasking. I heard wonderfull dream like stories of being able to
- copy a file, use a ansi editor, ect ALL AT THE SAME TIME. No waititing!
- OK.....Don't get me wrong, I was EXTREMELY impressed with the Amiga. It
- was fast, fast and even more fast (considering it's comparible to a 286
- with 3megs of ram). Not only was it fast...it ran Windows (WB)!
- Woooopeee wow you only need 512K to run a GUI OS! Honestly..I'm
- impressed! But this multitasking just isn't any better than Windows,
- System 7.5 or whatever.
-
- If I copy a file from disk to Hard drive (OS is on HD but not partition
- copying to)...I wait and boy do I have to WAIT! Now I thought I could
- copy a file and do whatever else. Why is this? could I copy a file from
- floppy to HD, if I had two HD's? One for the OS and One for the file
- being copied to.
-
- Soooo why is Amiga Multitaking better than Win 3.11 or any other OS.
- Amiga is fast and tasks full advantage of it's resources , but the
- multitasking is just not that great. Unless it could copy a file, print
- a page of text, and render an image. That would blow WinDOZE, System 7
- away as far as multitasking. Thanks in advance for setting me straight!
-
- Peace All,
- Kirk Dikun
-
- Don't let the goverment DIG! NO-DIG and Trenchless optins:
- http://www.trenchless.com/
-