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From: jjwcmp@isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: True Multitasking
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.024554.7416@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 02:45:54 GMT
References: <19019@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: RIT Communications
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In article <19019@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>In article <42554@ut-emx.uucp>, awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes...
>>programs. What exactly do you need your machine to do that "true" multitasking
>>would allow?
>
> Oh...let's see. How about being able to switch out of the Finder during copy
> operations or disk formatting? How about not having one's download wedge
> because a menu was held down too long? How about getting decent foreground
> performance with something running in the background that is not a "good
> citizen"? How about real print spooling?

Or how about importing a 100 pages or so of text into one XPress document
while working on another, while exporting data from a database...

Does anyone know if MachTen supports more 'preemptive' multitasking than
MultiFinder? I'd love to be able to switch from one app to another
without waiting for the Mac to let me do it at it's convenience...


Jeff
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