Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.092231.16025@utstat.uucp>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 09:22:31 GMT
References: <9011060032.AA01528@apple.com> <1990Nov6.051045.15206@utstat.uucp> <1990Nov6.074110.8104@cs.uow.edu.au>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <1990Nov6.074110.8104@cs.uow.edu.au> g8247032@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) writes:

[quotes re MultiFinder etc ...]

>True, Mac OS is not true multi-tasking OS, but then neither is Microsoft
>Windows, and they advertise it as true mutiltasking.

I did not discuss Windows, which is another story. I mentioned DeskView
which does allow some flexibility in the time slices alloted to processes.
If Mac people are happy with their "multitasking" OS then fine. Just want to
make it clear that they aren't kidding everybody.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions{