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From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
Summary: Retraction: Multi-Finder is multitasking.
Keywords: Multi-Finder, multitasking, Finder
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Date: 12 Jul 90 05:00:28 GMT
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In article <2619@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes:
>When you switch between applications with Multi-Finder, the
>application you WERE using goes to sleep.  I may be mistaken
>here, I don't get to use Multi-Finder very often because none
>of the Macs that I work on have enough memory.  (If I am I'm
>sure someone will point it out :-)
>
>To be truely multi-tasking, an operating system must allow
>multiple processes (or applications) to be running AT THE
>SAME TIME (well, actually they each get a time slice).
>
>The closest thing to true multitasking I've seen on a Mac
>is the print spooler.
>
>Paul Biron      pbiron@ucsd.edu        (619) 534-5758
>Central University Library, Mail Code C-075-R
>Social Sciences DataBase Project
>University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. 92093

Sorry!!!!!!  ;-(

As *MANY* people have pointed out to me, Multi-Finder does
*NOT* put applications to sleep when it switches between them.

As I said above, the only Macs I've had access to in the
last few years have only had 1 Meg of memory, so it hasn't
been worth running Multi-Finder.  The last time I used
it was about 2 1/2 years ago, and I guess I just remembered
incorrectly.

Sorry, again!


Paul Biron      pbiron@ucsd.edu        (619) 534-5758
Central University Library, Mail Code C-075-R
Social Sciences DataBase Project
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. 92093