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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: C++/MacApp questions
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Date: 28 Sep 90 13:05:09 GMT
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In article <24751@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis) writes:
>In article <10594@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mkb@rover.ri.cmu.edu (Mike Blackwell) writes:
>>Why oh why can't I compile in the background?
>Actually, you CAN compile in the background.

Indeed.  Except that you have to have the patience of a saint and the typing
speed of a near-sighted elephant to use your mac.  I find it practically
impossible to get anything done on my SE/30 with a compiler running in
the background.  And heaven help me once the linker starts up ("Open files?
YOU don't need to open files, I, the Great Linker, want them ALL!").

Of the two machines I have, the black one with the geometric shape does much
the better job at multitasking.  And System 7 isn't going to fix THAT.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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