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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
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Subject: Re: Copying files in the backround of sys 7
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.175733.9246@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 17:57:33 GMT
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n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) writes:


>In article <1991Apr13.180850.21255@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) writes:

>   Yes, but do you WANT to be able to 'do' something while its formatting?

>There's nothing strange there. Of cource we want to keep working while
>the Mac is doing something. Another thing is will it allow us..

<lots of other 'witty' remarks deleted>

The IIfx DOES do something about it.  It has two 6802's that do nothing but 
control the floppy drives and the serial ports. 
(Side note: I find this amusing, since the 6802 was the heart of the appleII )

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