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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:44:45 GMT
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- On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:51:24 GMT, finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- wrote:
-
- >You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when you
-
- No computer runs 2 apps at one time at the processor level. The Win
- DOS boxes multitask, and both run at once, which you'd know if you'd
- tried it for any length of time.
-
- >multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor time,
- >and with task-switching, it only gives a diffent one all the power, the one
- >you have selected at the time. This gives the illusion of multitasking, but
- >it isn't true multitasking.
-
- Oh please. Ever tried changing task priority in Win3.1? Works great;
- you might look sometime.
-
- >My dad has given up on Win95, and has decided to learn DOS instead. He says
- >that DOS is far preferable to that abomination, and I tend to aggree with
- >him (we have a Win95 P100, and it still crawls).
-
- And some people prefer a C64. You can't make everyone happy. What
- about his multitasking then?
-
- >But it still crawls, even with a P100 with 16meg of RAM and a 1 GIG HDD.
-
- Hardly.
-