Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!usc!apple!barr From: barr@Apple.COM (Ron Barr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What can't it do? Loss of... Keywords: Multi-Finder, multitasking, Finder Message-ID: <42935@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 13 Jul 90 18:37:50 GMT References: <82023@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2619@network.ucsd.edu> <42913@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer, Corporate Briefing Center Lines: 27 daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke) writes: >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. > This is almost true. If you're using an older piece of software that >doesn't call waitnextevent then it'll go to sleep. However properly written >software under Multifinder does recieve time in the background and the process >will be sched. It's even better than this. I am writing this using a terminal emulation package written PRIOR to MultiFinder and background applications work fine. This application downloads in the background as well even though it was written for a single process OS. I think this speaks to Apple's commitment to orderly growth. An application can be switched out whenever it calls the old fashioned GetNextEvent as well. >-- >daveo@apple.com David M. O'Rourke >_______________________________________________________________________________ >I do not speak for Apple in *ANY* official capacity. Ron