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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
Keywords: Multi-Finder, multitasking, Finder
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Date: 12 Jul 90 13:40:06 GMT
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In article <2619@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes:
>
>It's even more of a misnomer than you think.
>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 :-)

You ARE mistaken, as anyone who has downloaded a file, decoded a Stuffit file,
and used Microsoft Word all at the same time knows.

>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).

This happens, though the foreground application has to be willing to give up
a time slice (by calling GetNextEvent or WaitNextEvent)
>
>The closest thing to true multitasking I've seen on a Mac
>is the print spooler.

You haven't looked hard enough.
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