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From: dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Mac
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Date: 26 Oct 90 01:24:21 GMT
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zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes:
> What do the background tasks do that a Mac user would find useful?

Run batch jobs?
Receive and process email and FTP sessions?
Allow other people to log in and get work done on one machine?