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From: lemke@radius.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <1209@radius.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 05:12:35 GMT
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In article <36755@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
}right...There will be no true multitaking ala Unix in System seven 
}according to BYTE (2 most recent issues?).  Enhanced Multifinder is
}more like what System 7 can do.  What a shame...
} [...]
}I use both a Mac II and Amiga 2500 at work and have really gotten
}hooked on true multitasking.  Such an addition to Mac system 7 (or
}8) would make that machine MUCH more useful for us type A personalities
}who like to have 3 or 4 things going at once.
}
}Comments appreciated; flames ignored....

OK, in that case...  I'm not trying to start a net.bandwith-wasting
flame/discussion war here, but I'm curious:

What is it that you do on the Amiga (3 or 4 things at once) that truly
requires "True Multitasking"(TM) and therefore is impossible on the Mac?
I use MultiFinder all day long (alas, with only 2.5mb, though I have 5mb
at home) and constantly run several things at once, such as a database,
email, word processor, NCSA Telnet and/or AppleLink, MacDraw, etc.  My
only problem is running out of RAM since I only have 2.5mb.

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