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From: lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS
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Date: 23 May 91 19:52:34 GMT
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I think one of the neatest features in AO that isn't available on any other
service is its ability to mutiltask (sort-of).

I will normally open up a conference window, move it to the corner of the 
screen so I can monitor it, then go around and look around at the downloading
libraries which the chat window keeps chatting in the back.  Nobody said that
conferencing had to be non-productive, did they?

Also, if you've got the "Window-to-back" Fkey, when downloading, you
can put the downloading window to the back and be monitoring that conference
or looking through directories while downloading.  Although at 2400 or
worse, this can be pretty slow, and you can end up waiting 10 sec or more
for windows to pop up, but conferencing isn't bad, although the messages
come in between blocks.  And this really doesn't slow down the downloading
any significan amount, as I can tell.

In addition to the software being really resistant to line noise, I'd
say that their format is really well done.

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