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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:30:27 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
- Message-ID: <4kbm03$8s6@dole.uninett.no>
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : On 3 Apr 1996 20:55:20 -0700, sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- : wrote:
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- : >: 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.
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- : 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.
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- Are you able to recomend some decent multitasking scan-SW too?
- Ofoto and Mac-Scan render our Macs unusable. Infact, hitting
- the SCSI-bus at all has a nasty habbit of choking them.
- Cheers...
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