Friesen@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM (01/30/89)
Peter da Silva writes: >People don't mind a database taking 10% longer to look something up >if you can still use the computer while it's doing it. What people? Sure there are times (at least for me) when multitasking would be worth a 10% decrease in performance, however, more often do I want that extra oomf than being able to do whatever while the computer looks something up. I usually am only doing one thing at a time. I am maybe writing a report for school, programming, or playing with the Cyber stuff and there is no need for multitasking there--but there is a need for speed. Sometimes I'll forget to do something say run something off on the printer before I go to class--because of the ST's speed I can boot from a floppy, load my word processor, print my document, and not be late for school! Aric Friesen "Hypnotism; the programming language for people." Addresses: Genie: A.FRIESEN ARPA: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA