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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: When will mac to do multitasking?
Message-ID: <1991May8.190544.26692@santra.uucp>
Date: 8 May 91 19:05:44 GMT
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In article <811@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>In article <1991May3.035637.4446@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> aqhx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>> When will Mac be able to multitask?
>
>Since 1984.  There have been a variety of multitasking programs and operating
>systems available for the Mac.

This reminds me of Macintosh Basic (by Apple). I wish I had kept a copy
somewhere. I think the story of that program is that Microsoft didn't
want it to be released, so it wasn't...

If you want to see what it looked like, try finding the 1984 byte that
had the article about Mac Basic.

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