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From: macgyver@banana.cis.ohio-state.edu (wilson m liaw)
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Subject: Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, answer->MacWorld Interview Answers you.
Keywords: DMA, coprocessing, improvements
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Date: 5 Aug 89 02:02:29 GMT
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In article <14845@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes:
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>To finish, see the interview in September's MacWorld with Edward Birss, VP for
>product engineering at Apple.  He says something pretty scary at the end when
>asked if system 7.0 will have TRUE multitasking:
>
>"It depends upon what you mean by truly."  (we've heard that before.)
>"From the user perspective, yes absolutely, because you can print in the
>background, download from compuserve, and type a memo, all at the same time"
>(that's a start, but what about caculating a long spreadsheet at the same
>time?  LISA could do it!  Come on, guys...)

	When I read that two days ago, I remeber thinking to myself,
"Great, that means Apple won't do anything about Multi-Tasking in 7.0" 
What Ed described can be done in every Macintosh that's running Multi-Finder.
Heck, I can do it right now. Print in the background using apple supplied
print monitor, download from compuserve using Microphone, and open up
MS Word to write a memo. 

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