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- From: a95hanne@ida.his.se (Hannu Nevalainen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Say *perhaps* to fat binaries (was: what the new amiga-os *must* have)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 00:03:27 GMT
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- > +On 10-Apr-96 09:53:24 Marc Espie
- > +<espie@bireme.ens.fr>
- > +wrote in "comp.sys.amiga.programmer"
-
- > In article <2867.6669T177T96@club-internet.fr>,
- > Stephan Schreiber <septh@club-internet.fr> wrote:
-
- >> [ SNIP ]
- >>As I said before: users are *NOT* multitasking. That should not be
- >>forgotten, neither...
-
- > And you are definitely *WRONG*. Maybe you are *NOT* multitasking, but most
- > of us out there who have been playing with real computers like Unix
- > networks, or Amigas, do know how to do several things at the same time
- > (I'm currently answering your message, wait for a www connexion to
- > lysator, had my xbiff just beeping around, compiling the latest release of
- > lclint, thinking about what I'm going to change in tracker next, and
- > listening on one of my favorite tunes---all that on a friend's 486 under
- > linux :-) ).
-
- > This is the main reason why I feel crippled when I have to use a
- > Mac/Windows box: I'm forced to wait for the machine, whereas under Unix or
- > AmigaDOS, I'm
- > *free*, I start something, and I can start another thing before the first
- > one is finished...
-
- > You know, I believe it would have taken much longer for scheduling
- > optimizers and risc architectures to take off if people hadn't already
- > been using the same heuristics for their global behaviour for years :-)
-
- > Oh well, this guy is probably going to say I'm yet one other weirdo from
- > outer space, not a Real User (tm) as he sees them.
-
- If so, then I'm one too. You have just described, in very good words too,
- what a single-user-OS never will be able to do. This also is one of my
- major dislikes with Windoze.
- One ALWAYS have to _wait_ for one thing to finish before anything else can
- take place.
-
- NOTE: Nothing said here about the "wiseness" in starting two "things" on
- the same harddisk. But then - a normally experienced user knows
- when to wait - and when it isn't necessary to wait.
-
- Kind regards/Mvh
- /Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga user since '85. /*á1996-04-11á@01:36áCETá*/
- >> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/ /*áThorá2.22á[1642]á*/
- <sb> rexx:random(60 tags) -> "PowerAmiga_03"
- "Byte[-Magazine] has done benchmarks on PReP platforms running WinNT."
- "The PPC604/132mhz came out nearly 3 times the speed of a P5/90mhz."
- "The 604/150mhz will surely be more than 3 times faster."
-
- Q: What will be possible with AmigaOS, with its low overhead?
-
-