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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox questions
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Date: 13 Dec 89 13:53:03 GMT
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In article <37200@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
>I agree that background file
>transfers are preferable, but I just don't see how it could be done given the
>current constraints upon micros.

Gentle readers, Glenn obviously meant to say, "the current constraints
on the Communications Toolbox," or "the constraints of the current
Macintosh Operating System, especially on pre-68020 Macintoshes." I'm
sure he knows of programs that do indeed transfer files in the
background, even on Mac Pluses. I'm also sure he knows that there are
very few constraints on "micros", and that some "micros" even have REAL
OPERATING SYSTEMS that make "background file transfers" quite trivial
indeed, and that some of these selfsame "micros" cost less than
reasonably-configured Macintosh II's.

"We just don't have the hardware" just doesn't wash anymore.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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