NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/19525

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Herborth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: InterZONE Design
Subject: Re: Last time on this one
References: <H.ea.7tZUy7WdW&[e-mail]>
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X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:26:48 EST
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In <[e-mail]>, Jon Clarke writes:
>  If you think about what we have enjoyed on the ST for the last seven
>  years William is correct in what he says!

And, apparently, 90% of the people in comp.sys.atari.st who haven't
already left for another platform, don't mind waiting hours for
compiles, while they can't do anything else.

Over the past two years, I've been looking at all the things that are
available for the other platforms.  It's _nice_ to be working on
something in a nice word processor, and be able to pop open a CLI
window, type a few commands, compile something, etc, switch back to the
WP while it continues compiling, load up another program to work on a
graphic while everything keeps going, etc etc.

MiNT won't cut it...  The ST is much too slow for multitasking.  Just
try running GNU C over some code in the background with MiNT...
Suddenly your 4M is gone and you can't even load ps to see what's going
on.  The ST wasn't designed for that sort of abuse.  MiNT is an
_awesome_ thing, to be able to multitask effectively on this sort of
hardware.

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Chris Herborth
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