Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!russotto
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Misc mac probs/annoyances - why do they persist
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.133011.22404@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:30:11 GMT
References: <SAAF.91Feb12104742@joker.optics.rochester.edu> <ingemar.666438593@stuart> <1991Feb14.004211.29326@cs.dal.ca>
Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News)
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
Lines: 11

In article <1991Feb14.004211.29326@cs.dal.ca> graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham) writes:
>1) Why is the mac unable to format a floppy in the background?
Because formatting the floppy is a timing dependant operation.  The Mac does
not have a separate processor that handles the floppy.

>2) Why does it take forever for the control panel to appear - even on a IIfx?

Because you are running MPW?
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.