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From: mneerach@a.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
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Subject: Re: PPC, IAC, and True Multitasking (tm)
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Date: 22 Aug 90 19:04:00 GMT
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In article <6588@milton.u.washington.edu> kraig@biostr.biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno) writes:
>  "Cooperative" multitasking is
>meaningless because most normal applications don't cooperate.

Some of them do, and I expect they are getting more and more. What I use
very often is to read the Inside Mac VI or the Tech Note Stack in HyperCard
while MPW compiles in the background. Also, most compaction and archival 
programs seem already able to be running in the background. 
   It is true that few applications currently can run in the background. What
also seems to be very important to me, however, is that about 95% of current
applications give time to applications running in the background. So, the
problem is not that nobody cooperates but that nobody uses the cooperation.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   mneerach@c.inf.ethz.ch
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