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From: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 15 Jan 91 00:02:27 GMT
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In article <42498@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>
>Yes, but aside from the disk formatting question, I don't know of many small
>tasks that  I can't do with my Mac while doing others.  
>
How about this:  Try playing tetris while a document is printing in the
background.  I tried this exactly once and found it to be quite
irritating.  Oh, and as for importance, if this were possible I bet it
would be one of the biggest uses of multi-tasking on the MAC!

Paul.