Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!q4kx From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson Message-ID: <1990Nov5.141931.822@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 18:19:31 GMT References: <9011040755.AA25630@apple.com> <1990 Nov5.060817.22702@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: comp Lines: 25 In article <1990Nov5.060817.22702@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) writes: >>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... Ok, now, while you are downloading that file, go into the finder and copy a few files from floppy to hard disk, or, for that matter, save your word processing file. Notice how quickly all downloading stops. It ain't true multitasking. -- Joel Sumner GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER These opinions are q4kx@cornella.ccs.cornell.edu q4kx@cornella warranted for 90 days or q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu q4kx@crnlvax5 60,000 miles. Whichever .................................................... comes first. Never test for an error condition that you can't handle.