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- From: "Robert S. Iacullo" <eagle@serv.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:15:47 -0700
- Organization: A.C.C.O.
- Message-ID: <3173AB93.394F@serv.net>
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <4kdrnr$ipf@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4kgl5h$fb9@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <316CA448.3429@serv.net> <jsheehyDpxntG.Ix4@netcom.com>
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- John Sheehy wrote:
- >
- > In article <316CA448.3429@serv.net>, Robert S. Iacullo <eagle@serv.net> wrote:
- > >The thing is, with Win95 I have to sit and wait while copying files or
- > >formatting floppys. With the Amiga you can go ahead and do whatever you
- > >want while copying and formatting. REAL Multitasking. Win95 is at best
- > >fair.
- >
- > You must have a different version of Win95 than I do. I can do anything
- > I want while accessing the HD or formatting a floppy, except if the disk
- > activities are in the same thread as the app I am using (unlikely).
- > This will only happen when running two 16 bit apps at once, but the only
- > 16 bit apps I run are Cakewalk and Band-in-a-Box, but they are run
- > seperately and have almost no disk access.
- > I even use Norton SpeedDisk to defragment my HDs while working in apps.
- > If Speeddisk detects a read or write to the drive to which I am reading
- > or writing, it stops for a moment until the activity stops.
- >
- > DISCLAIMER: I will accept no flames for making this followup in an Amiga
- > group. I own 2 Amigas. I own 1 PC. They are all my children and I
- > will tolerate mistruths and exaggerations about none of them.
- >
- > John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
-
- You are right. I realized that I just wasn't waiting long enough for it to
- respond. It does work, it just takes TIME. I'll be selling my 120Mhz 486
- tower to get a 100Mhz Pentium laptop. That should help. Thanks.
- --
- Robert S Iacullo
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