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- Path: EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!hell!breedijk
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 22:11:03 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Multitasking...yawn
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- From: breedijk@hell.xs4all.nl (Frank Breedijk)
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- On 29 Feb 96 Jonathan Pitt sponsored the telephone company by writing to All:
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- JP> PC-weeNEE here....I have been a PC user for VERY long time. Since the
- JP> Amiga came out I always interested. I got one now, an A500 1 meg chip,
- JP> 2megs Fast, WB 2.05, 250megHD .
-
- Congrats.
-
- JP> impressed! But this multitasking just isn't any better than Windows,
- JP> System 7.5 or whatever.
-
- Don't hurt my eyes like that please.
-
- JP> If I copy a file from disk to Hard drive (OS is on HD but not partition
- JP> copying to)...I wait and boy do I have to WAIT! Now I thought I could
- JP> copy a file and do whatever else. Why is this? could I copy a file from
- JP> floppy to HD, if I had two HD's? One for the OS and One for the file
- JP> being copied to.
-
- First of all, how are you copying, if you are using the workbench to copy the
- file, than you indeed have to wait, because the task is busy, but other tasks
- still run. Try loading you ANSI edito first and then copiing the file.
-
- JP> Soooo why is Amiga Multitaking better than Win 3.11 or any other OS.
- JP> Amiga is fast and tasks full advantage of it's resources , but the
- JP> multitasking is just not that great. Unless it could copy a file, print
- JP> a page of text, and render an image. That would blow WinDOZE, System 7
- JP> away as far as multitasking. Thanks in advance for setting me straight!
-
- First, the acid test, open for example DPaint and then goto the workbench and
- format a disk. Then switch back to dpaint using Left amiga M to flip back. Try
- this under windows. You can't!
-
- The diferance is that in the amiga operating system, the operating system is
- respocible for deviding the system time between the tasks running whereas on
- windoz, the programs have to give up time to let the other programs run. This
- is done differently under windows NT.
-
- Offcourse I do have to admit that the amiga get sluggisch when you do a lot at
- the same time, but it does not come to a grinding halt, it does still run. And
- with more processorpower it would even run better.
-
- MZZL,
- o/ Frank Breedijk \o
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