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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MPW and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <2004@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 17:17:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.2004
Posted: Wed Sep  9 17:17:42 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Sep-87 05:31:24 EDT
References: <359@swanee.OZ>
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: MPW, background jobs

In article <359@swanee.OZ>, gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes:
> In article <3344@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
> 
> > MPW 2.0 is Multifinder aware; not only does it work with Multifinder, but it
> > takes vantage of the Multifinder environment.  
    I would argue that MPW 2.0 fails at least 2 ways in terms of being
the best type of MultiFinder companion. I think compiling in background would
be a big win and it loses there, AND it also is pretty wimpy about giving
time to background tasks during compilation. Both would be nice but it should
at least let through some time. (This was done with MPW C 2.0 and it may be
better with other tools, I don't know). 
David Gelphman      daveg%slacvm.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu