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- From: dritter@direct.ca (dan ritter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Amiga Multitasking...yawn
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 05:56:55 GMT
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- In article <4h4qtn$96v@cloner3.netcom.com>, trreco@ix.netcom.com(Jonathan Pitt ) says:
- >
- >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!
- >
- Well I think the problem here is the speed of the machine. Not the OS. The
- machine you're running that on is really no faster than an original Amiga
- 1000 made back in 1985. Sure, they improved the graphics by adding more chip
- ram and an ECS graphics chipset. But the speed of the computer is the same.
- That's why I would recommend an accelerator. The OS is not the problem here.
-
- L8ter 8-]
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