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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 16:35:30 GMT
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- Eddie (tl14@bton.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
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- : : >I agree this is actually a hardware design fault in the PC,
- : : >but that's what makes the Amiga so great. Even the hardware
- : : >is prepared for a multitasking OS.
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- : : In that case so is the Mac's.
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- : Well, no not exactly. The AMigaOS multitasks so well at the moment due to the
- : custom chips which the Mac doesn't have. However, any computer can be made to
- : multitask - it just depends how elegantly you want it done. This is the
- : Amiga's strong point in this respect - elegancy!
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- Give me a timer interupt and you get a better mutitasking then the amiga.
- Exec is simple but efficient... You can do the same and more on a PC (Or
- amiga)
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- I love to see task run faster when I move the mouse on the amiga :)
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- Stephan
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