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From: perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
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Subject: Re: SYSTEM-7, COMM.TOOLBOX, ZMODEM-STREAMING, AND PRE-EMPTIVE MULTITASKING...
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In article <7474@vela.acs.oakland.edu> rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) writes:
>	...does the Comm.Toolbox... ... support the ZModem protocol ?

Yes, If you have a Zmodem tool.  The toolbox by itself does not
support anything other than the tools you place in it.  (An empty
box for holding tools is probably a better metaphor than a box of tools.)

>	...is the Multitasking of System-7 Pre-Emptive ? 
>	(I assume this is probably yes).

And you'd assume wrong, It's "cooperative multi-tasking".  Wait
for 8.0 or whatever, they'll eventually get it right.

>	... is it reasonable to provide high-speed background
>	transfers with a streaming protocol such as ZModem
>	using System-7 ?

There's bound to be a lot of opinions on this, but I'd say it
depends more on what hardware you're using and what you're trying
to run in the foreground and how fast "high-speed" means to you.


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