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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst
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Date: 30 Dec 88 02:25:00 GMT
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Please add this to your list of Ten Best/Worst

Best: The macintosh multifinder (delivered in late '87 / early '88).
This piece of software demonstrated that a big kluge can be immensely
useful.  Even though people complain it's not "true" multitasking,
that doesn't matter, because the Mac is an interactive machine, not a
database/number cruncher.  It turns out that for non-crunching tasks,
multifinder does about 90% of what you need in a multitasking PC.



Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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