Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!ellis.uchicago.edu!dwal From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: PPC, IAC, and True Multitasking (tm) Message-ID: <1990Aug13.214450.9365@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 13 Aug 90 21:44:50 GMT References: <1990Aug3.040513.14844@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1990Aug3.171847.3222@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: U. Chicago Computing Organizations, Academic and Public Comp. Lines: 23 In article Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) writes: > >Agreed, but in the spirit of the original question: >Will Mac IPC be limited to the same CPU or are other macs IPCable? You can use IAC to communicate across a network. The IAC architecture in System 7.0 is designed to be used pretty much the same way for either the local machine or another machine on the network (with some differences depending on which layer of IAC you use). For example, an application could use a dictionary application on either the local machine or on a remote machine in pretty much the same way. Of course, IAC can also be disabled by the user with a checkbox in an application's Get Info window; an application must also have the appropriate bits set in its SIZE resource to get IAC. >Pat -- David Walton Internet: dwal@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago { Any opinions found herein are mine, not } Computing Organizations { those of my employers (or anybody else). }