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From: lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 03:30:42 GMT
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In article <17913@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> updated, at best, when an application is started up.  On the Amiga, an 
> application can not only import a file, but ask the filesystem to send it a
> message if that file ever changes.  So if you change drawings over a network
> and I flip over to my spreadsheet and change the graph in the aforementioned
> example, when I flip back to the documentation processor, it'll already have
> the new versions there waiting for me if it knows about notification.

And that's what happens under System 7 (via the Edition Manager).