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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst
Message-ID: <2590@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 1 Jan 89 03:27:49 GMT
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In article <79700018@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 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.

That last 10%, apparently, turns out to be 90% of what I use multitasking
for. And of course Multifinder chews up so much of the CPU that a Mac-II
running Multifinder seems way slower than an Amiga running Intuition, or
an AT&T 7300 running User Agent, or an HP Integral running HP-UX. Despite
the 5x faster CPU and the presence of the Mac Toolbox, one of the most
heavily optimised graphics libraries available.
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