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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 18:31:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 18:31:22 1987
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I just came back from MacExpo here in Boston and saw their new "Multifinder"
"first generation multitasking" system.  They really have no right to call
this thing multi-tasking.  It gives you print-spooling (even the lowly PeeCee
has print-spooling) and the ability to have several programs open at once
(if they're compatible with Multifinder) but they do NOT run at the same time
unless the program makes "give-up-the-CPU calls" frequently!  That's right,
no time slicing whatsoever.  This is really a joke!  
There are no provisions whatsoever for process spawning, inter-task
communication, or, it appears, even dynamic memory allocation (it appeared
that each program was allocated a fixed ammount of memory, out of which it
could allocate what it needed).

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