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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: double buffering considered harmful?
Message-ID: <1990Jan22.050337.1850@intercon.com>
Date: 22 Jan 90 05:03:37 GMT
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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In article <3655@hub.UUCP>, 6500stom@hub.UUCP (David Stoms) writes:
> As far as I know, none of the disk drives (floppy or HD) support
> async reads or writes.

Actually, I believe that the File Manager does not support asynchronous
reads or writes, only the Device Manager.  Especially under MultiFinder,
it sure would be nice to be able to do it, though.  Sigh.

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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