Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!wolfen!cs.uow.edu.au!g8247032 From: g8247032@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's") Message-ID: <1990Nov6.074110.8104@cs.uow.edu.au> Date: 6 Nov 90 07:41:10 GMT References: <9011060032.AA01528@apple.com> <1990Nov6.051045.15206@utstat.uucp> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University Lines: 26 philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: >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] True, Mac OS is not true multi-tasking OS, but then neither is Microsoft Windows, and they advertise it as true mutiltasking. -- George B. Zamroz, University of Wollongong Masters Student (Computer Science) Internet: g8247032@cs.uow.edu.au