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- From: Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 07 Jan 1996 03:27:50 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In-reply-to: fheitka@ibm.net's message of 6 Jan 1996 13:48:30 GMT
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- In article <4cluje$3590@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> fheitka@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp) writes:
- >In article <jdj91joit0l.fsf@neppari.cs.hut.fi>, Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fiS
- >says...
- >>The primary reason why programs on your PC do everything themselves is
- >>that they were designed for Windows 3.1, which can not multitask a
- >>bit. So, if you want to do something, you must have one program that
- >>handles all the aspects of the task.
- >You exagerate a bit. Windows 3.1 can cooperatively multitask. If you have
-
- So they tell me. I have yet to see it work. Cooperative multitasking
- doesn't exist. Windows can only crash cooperatively; the "OS" does all
- it can to help applications bomb.
-
- >enough ram it probably multitasks well enough that only folks that have
- >used UNIX or Amigas would know better. Heck even Workbench doesn't multitask
- >that well. Just stick a floppy in the drive and try to start something else
- >by clicking on an icon.
-
- People that don't know better generally don't know better. That is a
- simple truth.
- As for Workbench, it is a single task, how could it multitask? It
- doesn't multithread, I guess you mean. Which doesn't have anything to
- do with Amiga's multitasking, though.
-
- >>That AmiPOP and InetUtils are so superior in the tasks they do
- >>compared to other available programs is another thing entirely... ;)
- >Improvements can be made though. I wouldn't be too smug :)
-
- Of course improvements can be made. There is no such thing as a
- program that could not be improved. However, it is not my job to
- improve them, although I did, in part of AmiPOP.
-
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