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Subject: Re: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
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Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 15:03:42 EST
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In article <12679@cca.CCA.COM> dvmark@CCA.UUCP (Mark Jay Jones) writes:
>Now, now, now.  Lets not get context switching confused with multi-tasking.  On
>the Mac with swither, only one program is running at a time.  You can't start
>a program compile, and switch to another program and do something else in the
>mean time.  When you switch to another program, the other programs are not 
>running, just the one in front of you.

	I respect the Amiga's multitasking, and I certainly don't mean to
imply that Switcher is multitasking, but I think there is a point that
should be made.  In addition to the much-discussed background down-
loaders and printers, Thunderscan software (written by Andy Hertzfeld,
Switcher's author) is designed to scan under Switcher while you are
doing something else in another partition.  This is of course a tribute
to Andy's abilities, but it also demonstrates that multitasking is not
IMPOSSIBLE on the Mac, merely inconvenient.  And there was also the
great MultiMac mystery, which seemed a good step in the right direction.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
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