Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!terminator!um.cc.umich.edu!Gavin_Eadie
From: Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu (Gavin Eadie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PPC, IAC, and True Multitasking (tm)
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.171847.3222@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 17:18:47 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.040513.14844@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Sender: usenet@terminator.cc.umich.edu (usenet news)
Organization: U of Michigan Information Systems
Lines: 12

In article <1990Aug3.040513.14844@d.cs.okstate.edu> 
norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) writes:
> 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?

Even with "true multitasking" no other process is "truly running" at the 
same time unless you are using a multiprocessor computer and, even then, 
the process running on the receiver is the one catching the IAC and not 
the application itself.

This is a silly topic to be wasting energy on ...