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From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <TIME.89Nov27154310@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 20:43:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu's message of 27 Nov 89 17:50:03 GMT

True multitasking is just that: TRUE.

While most users do not "need" true multitasking, you can not dismiss
it flippantly. I constantly wish I had true multitasking. Can you
spell "Telebit"? I thought you could. 19200bps does funny things to a
machine that does not time slice programs well.

And how about those menu scans? What? You like to pull down menus and
flip through them? A habit you say?

And man, the next time I go to click in a menu, and I get NOTHING,
because my friendly background printing has tied the CPU, I am going
to remember: "There is *no* perceptable difference to the user".
Yeah, right.