Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What can't it do? Loss of... Keywords: Multi-Finder, multitasking, Finder Message-ID: <5136@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 12 Jul 90 11:55:58 GMT References: <82023@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2619@network.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 27 In-reply-to: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) In article <2619@network.ucsd.edu>, pbiron@weber (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 You are. Background applications keep running. The only distinction (as far as I'm aware) between foreground and background is that the application gets told when it's moved from one to the other. Oh, and things like menu bars, keyboard focus, and so on. This all depends on the tasks relinquishing control to each other - this is the crux. >The closest thing to true multitasking I've seen on a Mac >is the print spooler. I see a war about to start... :-) >Paul Biron Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss