Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!mephisto!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MAC ][cx appraisal Message-ID: <1990Mar27.220306.24913@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 27 Mar 90 22:03:06 GMT References: <15049@snow-white.udel.EDU> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 41 In article armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes: >In article <15049@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > >> Iowa State just opened up a fancy new MAC lab, and I have been using >> one of their ][cx systems since it opened. I am very impressed with this >> system. The multitasking is much better than I had been told [I have >> been fed a lot of bull about MAC multitasking from fellow Amiga users] > >Oh please. Don't make me laugh. I can't count the number of times a >confused user has come to me asking why their Mac IIcx has crashed, >only to have me say to them "turn off Multifinder." > >-George There have been a lot of exaggerations on how good/bad multifinder is. Here is my appraisal: Group 1) Programs that don't work under multifinder, period: about 25% of software. Some tell you, some just crash. Group 2) Programs that run under multifinder, but don't let you switch to another window: about 10% of software. Group 3) Programs that will work under multifinder, but not multitask, only let you switch processes: about 60% of software. Group 4) Programs that do true multitasking under multifinder: about 5% of software. Those last 5%, it should be known, do not multitask as well as on an Amiga. The foreground process always gets the vast amount of time, the programs are more difficult to write than others, and there is no interprocess communication. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else