CompuServe Messages

Jim Yes, I did see your son's message. I understand how things do get lumped together .. although Commodore must take a lot of the blame for the Atari/Amiga equation .. but they are _very_ different machines. I have seen the Mac multi-tasking (we use many of them at work), and I can't say I'm that impressed … the Amiga's multi-tasking centres on a few k of hand-crafted machine code which is tightly written and is actually a pleasure to examine. I suspect that this, coupled with the pre-emptive multi-tasking, is what makes the Amiga's multi-tasking so very efficient. Of course, multi-processing is a different ball-game 🙂 I had heard that the variable-speed drives had been abandoned … for the sake of at least some standardisation, I guess the storage loss will be worth it. Anyway … for a non-Amiga man, you have certainly seeded a very lively discussion 🙂 I hope we see you here again. All the best Mike (Whapping from the UK)