Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!fox!portal!cup.portal.com!ts From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Message-ID: <24453@cup.portal.com> Date: 25 Nov 89 03:22:33 GMT References: <6391@tank.uchicago.edu> <9072@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14 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. I think the original complaint was not that the person could not chose menus. The complaint was that the person could not take a long time waffling about in the menus before making a choice. Will Versaterm still work right in the background if you go to another application, pull down a menu, and just stay there with the meny pulled down? Tim Smith