Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.051045.15206@utstat.uucp>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 05:10:45 GMT
References: <usc!samsung!olivea!mintaka!dcw@UCSD.EDU> <9011060032.AA01528@apple.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <9011060032.AA01528@apple.com> MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:

[more on MultiFinder's "multitasking" abilities...]

MultiFinder does cooperative "multitasking". It is not a preemptive 
multitasking OS. It is less of that than DesqView is.

Just because you can time slice does not mean you have a multitasking
OS. If that were the case any computer could be said to multitask.

I may be picky on this but MultiFinder is NOT a multitasking OS, and if
it were it would be the worst one in history.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
[my very own opinions]