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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Home style Multitasking perhaps (Request for System ver 7 or 8)
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Date: 2 Mar 89 10:39:15 GMT
References: <1212@wasatch.UUCP> <41c54fc4.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> <1216@wasatch.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
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In article <1216@wasatch.UUCP> t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>In article <41c54fc4.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.UUCP (John F. Mansfield) writes:
>
>>You can, the bus will accept several devices, you could daisy chain 2
>>keyboards, a trackball, a digitizer pad and finally a mouse with no
>>problem.  The mouse is the limiting problem having no extension socket
>>like all of the others above.
>
>I know you can plug in many things to the ADB, the Mac can't tell which one is
>which and therefore you can't have one process using one device and another
>using a different one. Like a mouse for each process.

The Mac knows the ID of the ADB device. Just plug two different keyboards
to a Mac and try to use key caps. Every time you hit a key, the window
changes size & contents.

The problem with a multiuser Mac is that the current implementation of
Multifinder is not friendly to multiple users. Just look what happens
when you have a background program doing something and you suddenly
decide to choose something from a menu.

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