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- From: tempest@netins.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 10:36:10 GMT
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- In article <31680fcf.58389552@news.onramp.com>, dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- >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.
-
- Point being acorn, that on an Amiga, we don't have such lame problems
- as mac's.
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