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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst
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Date: 31 Dec 88 02:23:22 GMT
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gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 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.

You have got to be kidding