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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
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Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 19:23:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 19:23:19 1987
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In article <4558@nsc.nsc.com> curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry) writes:
}The Apple people I am talking too are being very careful about refering to the
}new finder as a background tasker.  Initially the print spooler will be the
}only thing programmed to be used thusly.  Other programs are on the way from
}second party people.  It's the press in their usually uninformed and ignorant
}rampages that are calling it multitasking.  Let's not blame Apple for the 
}problems of the press.

No, it was in the Apple booth where I saw this software demonstrated and on
the wall directly above the machine that was being used it said:

"The first generation multitasking system"

This was not the press.