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From: slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Mac
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.154829.23431@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 15:48:29 GMT
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In article <ZIPPY.90Oct23212636@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes:
>The NeXT has daemons running in the background doing 'useful' things.
>But aren't these tasks useful only because the NeXT needs them?  What
>do the background tasks do that a Mac user would find useful?

I would find queing very useful on a mac. Their are things I find useful to
run in the background but don't need on a Mac except where a Mac just doesn't
do the job all that well unless yhou dedicate it to it. Examples:
	NFS server
	Network router
	Remote print server
	{granted these are vague points}