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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <1554@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 89 03:09:51 GMT
References: <9072@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <6391@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>Sounds like it's your comm program, not the Mac OS.  I've never had any
>problems of that nature when downloading (using Versaterm).  I can choose
>menus, play games, etc.  Pretty good multitasking, as far as I'm concerned.

From article <9072@hoptoad.uucp>, by tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney):
> I wonder how they do that.  Can anyone provide any information?  My
> first thought was to schedule your file transfer protocol off the
> vertical retrace manager, but your tasks don't get called when you're
> switched out...

Unless you install the VBL task in the System heap.  See TN 180 for a full
discussion.

=Ned Horvath=