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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: 6 Jan 89 01:13:00 GMT
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/* Written by bader+@andrew.cmu.edu in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.misc */
> 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.
>
>You have got to be kidding

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/* Written by peter@ficc.uu.net in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.misc */
>
>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.

Read my lips: I said "for interactive tasks", e.g. editing pictures,
typing in WYSWYG documents, etc.  Just what the Mac does best.  Not
programming / number crunching / running databases, etc.  You complain
that it doesn't do what you want.  Well, tough, use another computer.
I suspect you already do, hence the cynicism.


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