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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <2008@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 16:02:37 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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radius!lemke@apple.com writes:
| 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?

OK, I'm sitting here with a 4 megabyte file to download.  *PERFECT* use
for multi-tasking.  Thank god for multifinder.  Fire it up, start the
download.  All's going well.  Leave.  Time passes.  Return.  Let's see
how things are going.  Switch over to another program.  Browse around.
Open up a menu from menu bar.  Hmmm... what do I want to do?  Look around
for a bit.  Make a selection.  Check in on the download.  WHAT!!!!
ABORTED!!!  Oh &^@$%^&%#@ great.  The entire computer comes to a screeching
halt when you're in a menu.  What other kludges are lurking in there?
I WANT REAL MULTITASKING.  Multifinder is better than MSDOS, but not much.

Followup to alt.dev.null.  There's not much to do about this without a
radical change to the Mac OS.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu