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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:52:40 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- On 3 Apr 1996 20:55:20 -0700, sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- wrote:
-
- >: 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.
-
- Get a better PPP dialing client. If you use another program to make
- MacPPP dial, it won't tie up the machine. It is very annoying; I'll
- certainly agree with you there.
-