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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <36613@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 89 05:02:15 GMT
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In article <74117@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> wilson m liaw <macgyver@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>In article <5267@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>>In article <36687@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>>
>>> I've heard that multitasking has been dropped from system 7 for the
>>> Mac...Why?
>>
>>Multitasking hasn't be dropped from System 7.0; I don't know where you 
>>might have heard this.
>
>	Are we talking about the same type of Multitasking here? I think Tom
>was talking about true multitasking.( As in unix.) While the multitasking in
>System 7.0 is like the current MultiFinder.

Oh no; I see a storm coming.  In the interest of saving hundreds, perhaps
thousands of dollars, please refrain from arguing why MultiFinder is or
is not "true multitasking".

(Personally, I beleive that "true multitasking" is akin to "standard Unix";
put please don't waste net bandwidth arguing that point either.)

						_emt