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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <28834@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 16:22:17 GMT
References: <1930@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <11555@lanl.gov> <17376@cisunx.UUCP> <191@visix.UUCP> <3810@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3810@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>[ I was complaining about the lack of multitasking on the PC and MAC ]
>
>In article <191@visix.UUCP>, jeff@visix.UUCP (Jeff Barr) writes:
>> This is purely an operating system problem, its not related to the interface
>> at all.
>
>It's related to the interface, since most of what little O/S there is on the
>Mac (and now with Windows and its successors, the PC) is entirely oriented
>towards the user interface. You can't write a program on these machines
>unless it's tied tightly to the user interface. The whole concept of running
>in the background is alien.

Running in the background is alien to the Mac and Windows?!?  Boy, you'd better
let the authors of the background print spoolers know that so that they can
fix their programs to run only in the foreground rather than in either the
foreground or background, or background only in those two systems!  In fact,
there is a program on the Mac that runs *ONLY* in the background under
MultiFinder -- Backgrounder.  Guess what -- no user interface.  All it does is
watch for print spool files and start up another program to manage the spool.
I guess the Mac can't really handle that! ;-)


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