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Old 29 June 2017, 15:12   #32
drHirudo
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Originally Posted by Gorf View Post
One more thing comes to mind:

No multitasking in Workbench!

Amiga got this great preemptive multitasking OS, but the Workbench make poor usage of this - there should habe been no "Zzzz", but a progress window for disk activities.
Floppies and multitasking is an oxymoron. Even late 2000s PC freeze when you do floppies stuff. There is joke about this.

Bill Gates' son asks his father:
"Dad, what's multitasking?"
"Let me finish formatting this floppy and I will tell you."
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