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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
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Date: 4 Jan 89 08:45:17 GMT
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Reply-To: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
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You are wrong!  I have used Asynchronous calls with Appletalk and what
do I do while I poll the ioResult field?  I call WaitNextEvent under
MultiFinder!  This gives other applications time, and lets the user switch
out of the current application and do something else.  This same feature
could be used for disk i/o.

Patrick Beard
Berkeley Systems Design
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory