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Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 03:53:02 EDT
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In article <2742@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>MultiFinder version 1 does not have time-slicing.  However, it will in the
>future.  In any case, since Mac programs are so heavily interface-driven,
>time-slicing is not a particularly great requirement.

You mean if I want to do some editing while Mac C Kermit is downloading
a 150K file for me at 1200 baud, I have to go to another machine?  I
can't type "make" in a CLI window and then go off and play a game?
Humph...
   Look, can we all agree that it was unfair of Gary Samad to tweak the
Mac owners about their lack of multitasking, AND that the Mac
defenders' postings so far (Tim Maroney's and Pierce Wetter's) show little
understanding of the Amiga's capabilities?  Let's nip this thing in the
bud before the net explodes with another religious war.

    Steve Walton, guest as walton@tybalt.caltech.edu
    AMETEK Computer Research Division, ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu
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