[InafuSabi]

A friend of mine was amazed by this capability of the Amiga when I showed him that on one screen I could play mod.DasBoot in NoiseTracker, pull the screen down partly then go on the BBS in the terminal by manually dialing atdt454074 and entering, without my A500 even skipping one beat...

All I had was the 512kB expander, he had a 386 with 387 and could only run a single tasking OS

[tinus_hn]

Linux was originally built for the 386.

[icedchai]

He could've done the same thing with DOS if he bought DesqView. That let you multitask multiple DOS applications on a 386.

[gmueckl]

Not quite. The multiple screen thing allowed several full screen graphical applications with different resolutions on screen at once, divided by a vertical barrier (a title bar similar to those on windows). This was a hardware feature at its core, if memory serves me right.

[icedchai]

Yes, I remember the screen feature on my A500. It was neat.

To say a 386 is limited to single tasking is wrong though. That was my main point.