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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.5.1 and background tasking
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Date: 19 Jan 90 21:26:04 GMT
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In article <1227@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
> This is one of the main reasons I prefer the Amiga so much over the Mac. 
> Hopefully in the future the mac will get real multitasking, but for now
> Multifinder just does not cut it.  All programs should multitask and
> require no special effort by the programmer to get them that way....

Sigh.  MultiFinder has some shortcomings compared to preemptive 
multitasking (I guess that's what you mean by "real" multitasking), but 
this is not one of them.  I use numerous Mac programs that were written 
long before MultiFinder was even discussed, and they multitask just fine 
under MultiFinder.  No special effort was required of the programmers to 
make this work, because they weren't even _thinking_ about multitasking.

> Those who feel that MultiFinder is enough, or that multitasking is not
> necessary in a home computer, have never tried true multitasking.

Fair enough, but tell me, have you actually tried the Mac?

David Casseres
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