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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Multitasking =/=> Background printing, copying, etc.?
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Date: 28 May 91 20:38:09 GMT
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In article <1441@mephisto.edu>, ashwin@gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
> Given that system 7 has "multitasking" and the "new print architecture",

But it DOESN'T have the new print architecture!

> Similarly, I would also expect file copying, disk formatting, etc. to be
> backgroundable.  Again, these are just tasks like any other tasks.

Disk formatting doesn't happen in the background because that would me a
rewrite of most programs.  However, I'm working on that one...

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