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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: True Multitasking
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Date: 16 Jan 91 18:35:32 GMT
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In article <0B010004.4ldrhg@outpost.UUCP>, peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes...
>[about Apple doing well protecting software investment]
> 
>Another point is that the current, cooperative multitasking, WORKS
>VERY WELL FOR MOST USERS.  Maybe it falls down if you want
>to run a ray tracer and compute pi to 10000000 places and still play
>solarian at the same time.  But for the guy who wants to run Word
>and MacDraw and PageMaker concurrently it works great.

Since I'm feeling conciliatory, I'll agree. And it's great that Apple does
 such a good job with backward compatibility. But there are places where "less
 cooperative" multitasking would be appreciated, such as (as I've said before)
 copying files and formatting disks. It would really be nice, too, if holding
 down a menu didn't take over the machine.

 But these are relatively minor annoyances, overall. Beats having to write a
 CONFIG.SYS! But let's not start THAT discussion ;-).

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