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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Background printing for Imagewriter in 7.0?
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.gii0kh@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 91 22:20:58 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
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In article <1991May25.042015.17871@CAM.ORG>, pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) writes:
>                                                    If you look back, the
> OS/2 PM threat remains a joke.  I've only seen it in magazines!  I've
> never seen a store that demoed it, I've never known a user that uses it. That's
> too bad in a way, since OS/2 with PM is probably the most underrated OS. This
> thing has REAL multitasking, Virtual Memory, Threads, etc... and has had
> these features from day 1 (>2 years ago).  Apple is really lucky...

It just goes to show you that "REAL multitasking, Virtual Memory, Threads, etc"
aren't what sell Personal Computers.

-- michael

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