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From: mnkonar@smallberries.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, answer->MacWorld Interview Answers you.
Keywords: DMA, coprocessing, improvements
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Date: 4 Aug 89 21:18:03 GMT
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In article <14845@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes:
>In article <577@studsys.mu.edu> stevej@studsys.mu.edu (jovanovic) writes:
>>Dear Apple,
>...various apple bashings...
>>First, let's talk about multitasking.
>
>I tend to agree with many of the points in this posting.  Apple should have
>REAL multitasking.  I think amigas are cheesy, but even they can do some
>impressive multitasking.
>
>Apple needs to get it soon, too, because as we have seen with presentation
>manager etc. the competition isn't going to sit and wait for apple to catch up.
>Macs may still be slicker graphically and functionally, but the gap is closing
>and pretty soon the only difference between a mac and an IBM will be that the
>Mac is slow and non multitasking.

I defy you as a user to sit at both a PM machine and a Mac both running modern
software (in the Mac's case MF Friendly, in the PM case a PM app) and tell me 
which one is "truly multi-tasking" and which one isn't.and which one isn't.

One thing that seems to get overlooked in these discussions of true vs. fake
multi-tasking is that for the most part, it doesn't make a bit of difference 
if the user can't tell the difference.  And I'm talking about the vast majority
of users who ARE NOT programmers or harware types.  Just ordinary folks mousing
away.

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Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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