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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:59:01 GMT
-
- >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.
-
- For your information, all I had to use for three months last year was a 486
- PC, which is plenty of time to get to know a system. Wintel may multitask
- under '95, but it can't under 3.1. '95 is crap on the multitasking front
- anyway, it gets its task priorities badly wrong.
-
- >>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.
-
- The point of multitasking is that you don''t have to. Task switching means
- that you do have to to get results. I have never had to change a taskpri on
- my Amiga, and it still runs better than any Wintel machine.
-
- >>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?
-
- in many ways, the C64 is superior to the P100. It has an OS that makes use
- of the hardware, instead of limiting it. Multitasking would be nice, but as
- win95 can't do it very well anyway, I'd go for DOS.
-
- >>But it still crawls, even with a P100 with 16meg of RAM and a 1 GIG HDD.
-
- >Hardly.
-
- _VERY_, This is our machine I'm talking about here. My A1200 still runs
- faster if I take my accelerator card out.
-
- Why do you contradict anyone if they insult Win95? It is true, if you want
- to see it, then buy yourself a plane ticket over to the lovely land of New
- Zealand. You seem to think that you are god, and if you haven't seen
- something, then it isn't true. I assume that, in your opinion, Pluto and
- many of the outer planets don't exist, neither does new zealand, and
- Win95 doesn't run slow.
-
-