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From: kingson@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Kingson Gunawan)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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Date: 1 Mar 91 20:13:45 GMT
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favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:
>	1) Better multi-tasking than Multifinder on the Mac.  I.e.
>	   regular programs can run in the background, not just
>	   print spoolers, etc.  (Note that I mean actually run, not
>	   just sit there as in Multifinder.)

Correct me, I have not seen a Multifinder compatible program that just sit in the background.  All the program that I have seen (word processor, etc.) do actually run in the background including some compression utilities, databases etc.  I do know about 3 years ago there was a program called mac switcher which actually suspends a program and sends it to the background.

One thing about MS Windows that really irritates me is its speed.  I actually notice a much slower responds from a 20MHz 386 machine running MS Windows than from the Mac SE.  Otherwise, MS Windows is ok.