Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!neon!torrie From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's") Message-ID: <1990Nov5.060817.22702@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 5 Nov 90 06:08:17 GMT References: <9011040755.AA25630@apple.com> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 19 >About the Multifinder and 'multitasking'.... I completely agree with you. >Switching between aplications is NOT multitasking.... Having two applications >both RUNNING at the SAME appearant time IS multitasking, which the Mac does >not do. ^^^ In fact, Multifinder on the Mac DOES do exactly what you define to be multitasking... Any of the computation-intensive programs, like Mathematica, Excel, Hypercard 2.0, and most of the terminal programs are perfectly capable of running in the background while applications are being worked on in the foreground... I run my Macintosh system like this all the time, mostly letting the terminal program download from a Unix host, while I work on word-processing projects in the foreground. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Jim Bolger - a National landslide of incompetence