Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!jjwcmp From: jjwcmp@isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr2.024426.28729@isc.rit.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 02:44:26 GMT References: <91085.161852EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> <91087.123233EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> Organization: RIT Communications Lines: 32 With all this talk about multitasking (it seems like a never ending subject), I thought about the places where I could really use the ability to switch from one task to another: 1. Printing While spoolers do help, when you're printing a 40 page 11x17 book with lots of scanned images, it can still take a while to generate the postscript. 2. Saving Wouldn't it be nice to switch to another program while your 1.5 megabyte file is being saved to your fileserver? Recently, I was was doing batch search and replace with Nisus. The search and replace was prety fast, but it took quite a while to save all 150 files afterward... 3. Copying files Well, system 7 will take care of this... 4. Starting an App If Apple could look at where most users spend most of the time waiting (and unable to switch), they could concentrate on adding some sort of switching ability there... Jeff -- | RIT VAX/VMS Systems: | Jeff Wasilko | RIT Ultrix Systems: | |BITNET: jjwcmp@ritvax +----------------------+ INET:jjwcmp@ultb.isc.rit.edu| |INTERNET: jjwcmp@ritvax.rit.edu |____UUCP:jjwcmp@ultb.UUCP____| |Ask me about the Desktop Publishing Mailing list -- All platforms welcome. |