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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multitasking vs MultiFinder (was Amy 68030 vs Mac IIcx)
Keywords: Oranges are better than Apples.
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Date: 19 Mar 90 16:35:50 GMT
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["moof! moof!"]
In article <3137@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp11@bingsunm.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes:
<> [...] 
<> Does AmyOs multitask as well as Multifinder?  Are most Amy programs
<> pretty reliable when multi-tasking?
<> [...]
<
<This is the only question of the bunch that I can answer of the few you asked,
<but I must say, quite simply, that Apple's MultiFinder is a joke, basically
<because the hardware itself is still not capable of true multitasking.
<

In a recent article in MacWorld magazine (I think), one of the editors said

      "Multifinder is a hack".


                                                      *** mike smithwick ***

"E Pluribus Unix!"
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]