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From: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <3169@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 19:41:24 GMT
References: <17148@usc.edu>
Reply-To: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN
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In article <17148@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>programs, such as a spreadsheet, database and communication program, to 
>update one another with fresh information automatically [a very "interesting"
>way of defining multitasking]. System 7.0 will also allow that".

Actually, it's an "interesting" way to describe inter-process communication.

>Interesting. I have been using a system with such features, an Amiga,  since 
>1985.

So, could someone who knows mail me a description of how the Amiga does IPC
(not multitasking)? Especially the "automatic" inter-process updating that
Apple describes. I don't have an Amiga (yet), but I AM interested. The
Amiga's multitasking doesn't seem like anything special (at least as unstable
as multifinder, same memory frag problems, no MMU, etc.) but THIS would be
useful.

		Robert
(Please MAIL, I don't read comp.sys.amiga)
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Robert K. Shull
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