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From: jmpiazza@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza)
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Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
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Date: 10 Jul 90 17:55:29 GMT
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In article <2715@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>In article <3039@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>>
>>If a GUI has been designed for multiple applications running concurrently
>>and sharing a screen space, there is no need for kludges like DAs or
>>Multifinders.
>>Wolfgang Strobl
>
>This above statement shows severe ignorance of how the Mac works.

	Them's strong words you're using.

>Multifinder
>is how the Mac does its multiprocessing. DA's are just small applications
>that run as another process just as other applications do.

	I think what Mr. Strobl was referring to the fact that the
Finder was not originally designed to multitask -- not even cooperative
multitasking.  While "kludge" may be an exageration, Multifinder is a
revision of the the same non-multitasking Finder.

	In this light I can't see how you can justify calling him ignorant.
Neither God nor Apple created the Mac in one day (though there are rumors
that Apple was present in the garden of Eden when Man and Women were
created :-)  as was IBM in the guise of a serpent).  :-)

>... Yes there are
>differences between DA's and applications, but as 7.0 and beyond comes
>out, the difference fades..

	Just as your memories of the pre-Multifinder era have faded.

 Flip side,

	joe piazza

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