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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 12 May 89 17:35:16 GMT
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In article <18268@cup.portal.com| thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
|Re: the Version 7.0 of the Macintosh System Software article in WSJ ...
|Another perspective appeared on page D-1 of the San-Jose Mercury-News,
|Wednesday, May 10, 1989, reprinted here in its entirety without permission and
|WITH all the typos, misspellings and misteaks (sic :-) of the original article. 
[...]

|             APPLE OFFERS PEAK (sic) AT LATEST SOFTWARE
|                      By Rory J. O'Oconnor
|                 Mercury News Computing Editor
|Apple Computer Inc., aiming to keep pace in the desk-top computer market,
|disclosed Tuesday details of a new version of the principal software for its
|Macintosh computer line.
|The software will give the company's computers some of the advanced capabilities
|of rival operating systems offered by International Business Machines Corp. and
|many work-station vendors.
|Version 7.0 of the Macintosh System Software will improve the computer's ability
|to run several programs at once, a process known as multi-tasking.
[...]
|'Tis sad when publications such as the WSJ and S-J M-N print "articles" that
|have NOT been well researched and are obviously more a "press release" than
|a news story.  The S-J M-N is notorious for its shoddy reporting during the
						 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|past 3 years (and 3 editors of the Computing Section); not a good image for
|the "premiere" newspaper of Silicon Valley.

Has it has been explained in comp.sys.mac by Apple personnel, System 7.0 does
NOT provide any changes that allow true multi-tasking: System 7.0 will still
rely on MultiFinder.  Apple can try to fool end-users into thinking that 
MultiFinder provides multitasking, but I don't think anybody on Usenet
will ever believe that.  If you do, may I suggest you pick up ANY Operating
Systems book.  It might be very educational.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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