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- From: gpearce@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Greg Pearce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Amiga Multitasking...yawn
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 07:20:11 -0500
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- Jonathan Pitt (trreco@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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/
- While I was testing Executive (a task scheduler) on my 2000 I could render
- a 24-bit image in Real 3d, a 3d HAM landscape in Scenery Animator, print
- letter quality from Final Writer, download files from Aminet, access an
- Aminet cd on my cd-rom drive, format a disk, without any noticable degradation
- of my system. I even forgot about the Scenery Animator render until it
- popped to the front screen. My 2000 has an 030 and 9 megs of ram but I
- don't think you could do all that on a Windows system with 50 megs.
-
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- Pegasone
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