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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
Message-ID: <253@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 13:16:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 13:16:13 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 01:59:19 EDT
References: <6565@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <6565@eddie.MIT.EDU> gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
>
>I wonder if Apple is really going to pull the wool over its user's eyes by
>advertising "The new Mac multitasking operating system."
>
>	Gary

Hey, I for one would not be surprised.  Most (in my opinion) people do
not know what multitasking is, so you could say "this Commodore 64
over multitasks because it can have two programs in memory at once and
switch between the two!" and the person would believe that this is
true multitasking.  There belief is certainly not out of stupidity,
but rather out of a lack of proper information.  Hell, when all one
has ever used has been a PC or CPM or an Apple (or some such single
tasking computer), it is not suprising that one does not know what
true multitasking really is.  Most users of PC's are not educated in
computer science, let alone the internals of Operating Systems, so I
think it is perfectly reasonable that they would not understand what
multitasking is, and that *YES*, Apple will pull the wool over the
eyes of PC and Apples users.  However, they will NOT pull the wool
over UNIX users' or Amiga users' eyes!

				-Chris

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