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Subject: Re: Say *perhaps* to fat binaries (was: what the new amiga-os *must* have)
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 17:39:29
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I don't think Mr. Kittel was saying that AmigaDOS was the only multitasking OS but if you actually
check out what problems a multitasking OS can have you will see that having the convenience
of single key answers is not a trivial one.  And I am guessing that anyone with experience
in multitasking OSes (and taking advantage of such not using it one task at a time) would see
his point as it is very valid.  In OS/2 (another multitasking OS :-) ) has many of the problems
MR. Kittel mention.  Unfortunetly for OS/2 users, because of it MS heritage, many applications
have the return for the default result.  And you get very close behavior to what Mr. Kittel
mention.  You are running an application and all the sudden another application pops a requester
up, sets the focus and attention a request and because you are typing, you answered (not intentionally).
 Fortunately most programs do not do anything as drastic as what Mr. Kittel mentioned but the
fact is that you do answer.  But never the less it is a problem.  My company's OS/2 applications
try to avoid to have anything very distructive with keyboard equivalents as we have found that
although rare, you will get similar situations in the real world.  MS Windows users have not
experience such things yet but we will see now that Win95 is getting closer to been a multitasking
OS.

Eduard Joseph