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From: wca@ut-sally.UUCP (William Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Info needed on Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (LONG)
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 10:17:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 28 10:17:07 1986
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: multitasking in Unix

In article <15027@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, shebanow@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Shebanow) writes:
> As far as multitasking goes, I agree that it would be nice to have, but I
> don't think it is absolutely necessary. In practice, even experienced
> UNIX hacks use multitasking very little: mostly for print spooling & running
> ---------------------------------------

(emphasis is mine)

Ah, c'mon!  We use multitasking all the time.  Everytime I type:

% ps aux | grep fubar

I take advantage of multitasking.  In particular, _pipes_ are used by all
of the "UNIX hacks" I know.  No flames about the U word showing up in
net.micro.mac, please.

Willie Anderson - University of Texas Computation Center

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