Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!umbc3.umbc.edu!umbc5.umbc.edu!cs483106 From: cs483106@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs483106) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Mar28.160054.2947@umbc3.umbc.edu> Date: 28 Mar 91 16:00:54 GMT References: <1991Mar21.095051.29206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <593@genco.bungi.com> <91085.161852EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account) Reply-To: cs483106@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (cs483106) Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Academic Computing services Lines: 43 In article <91085.161852EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET writes: >I completly agree with the statement that Mac OS should have prementive >multitasking.. Multifinder is a joke, they is no way to download from a modem >while running another app. Here are some other problems. What do you mean? I do it all the time. Run my compiler or MacWrite or something in the foreground while Zterm is going to it in the background. works great for me, anyway... >1. There is no way to set a task's inportance, each other the backgroud app's >get equal time, except for the foreground app, witch can steel all of the cpu >time if it wants too. true enough. But would you make a lot of use of a program that did this to you? I sure done. Programs written like that definitely don't get used much on my machine. Besides, if you get AU/X(I know, it's expensive), you get true multi-tasking in the bargin. >2. What about all those nice coprossers the fx has. When will we see a system >that truely supports them! >3. When will we see the new print architechure, line-layout manager, and apple >scripting. > I used to think the apple was a little behind in hardware, and ahead of >the game in system software. Now I think the opposite might be true. I sure >hope that apple gets these into system 8, and I hope system 8 doesn't take >2 years to get here. My next computer purchase may depend on apple coming out >with system 8 on time. >Ed Younk >Michigan Tech University