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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Turning off time slices in S7
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Date: 1 Jun 91 01:31:06 GMT
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In article <TRIANTOS.91May29214004@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu>, triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B Triantos) writes:
> Dear World,
> 
> I was thinking...Since S7 is always MultiFinder, aren't apps such as Solarian,
> and other games, and many other things which are heavily dependent on timing,
> going to suffer?  On my SE, I can't play them anyway, but it seems like there
> will be problems.  Even when my screen saver goes on, I notice that things are
> *REALLY* creeping.  Any ideas?

Well, considering the foreground application has control over when the application
is switched out, this shouldn't be a problem.  This IS a problem on time-slicing
machines, like the PC, and means another level of technical information
that the user has to know.  Isn't it nice to work on the Mac?

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