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- From: sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
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- Date: 3 Apr 1996 20:55:20 -0700
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- Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : 1. Commodities = Mac extensions.
-
- Can you unload an extension?
-
- : 2. Real multitasking = cooperative multitasking is just as "real" as
- : preemptive
-
- Why can't my Mac (Shapeshifter) do anything else while MacPPP is dialing
- and redialing? I have a busy ISP, and sometimes I get busy signals for
- several minutes. The Mac is totally unable to do anything else while it
- is doing this. Sure, sometimes Mac's "multitasking" works out ok and is
- almost acceptable. But the illusion is shattered time and time again.
-
- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- John Millington
-