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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Multitasking: Oh Shut Up (chapter two)
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Date: 10 May 91 03:08:02 GMT
References: <15931@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991May7.061330.4965@cbnewsk.att.com>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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In article <1991May7.061330.4965@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes:
> From article <15931@helios.TAMU.EDU>, by jeff@archone.tamu.edu (Jeff Raymond):
> > ...MultiFinder is NOT multitasking...[for 50 lines or so]

> This statement is false

Agreed.  As an aside, I sometimes define multitasking as something that I do
on a personal level.  In this context, any program that allows me to keep
more than one document open at a time allows me to multitask, so I call
computers that run this software multi-tasking.  The acid test is that I
have to be able to switch instantly between the documents to aviod losing
a thought before I can get it written down.

Using this definition, most Mac programs with multiple documents under
uni-finder qualify as multi-tasking, and any programs running under 
multi-finder qualify.  UNIX on a Sun qualifies, but not on a TTY (no
windowing or instant switching).  PCs do not qualify, not even Windows
(to difficult to switch between programs).

-john-

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