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From: norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: PPC, IAC, and True Multitasking (tm)
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.040513.14844@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 04:05:13 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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[Sorry about the previous article; 'rn' thought it belonged to someone
else and it wouldn't let me cancel it.]

With System 7.0 just around the corner (the corner of 1990 that is :-),
I'm inclined to observe the following paradox: While System 7.0 will not
provide true multitasking (tm), it will provide inter-application
communication.

Obviously, if you don't have true multitasking you can't possibly have
true IAC: After all, what can a process communicate with if no other
process is truly running at the same time? Is some Apple marketing type
trying to pull the wool over our eyes or what? Come on ye keepers of the
true multitasking faith,let's rise up and squash this IAC propoganda.

Many :-)'s
Norm
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