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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
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In article <4679@okstate.UUCP> norman@a.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) 
writes:
> BTW, I plead with all intelligent computerists to cease to use the term
> "TRUE MULTITASKING". If by "true multitasking" you mean multitasking
> with preemptive job scheduling (or preemptive multitasking) by all means
> say this. I'm convinced that the phrase "true multitasking" was invented
> by a computer-illiterate computer-journalist who didn't know how
> to effectively contrast preemptive and nonpreemptive scheduling.

Amen!  I think that by "true multitasking" most people mean "like the 
mainframe system I used in college," or "like my thesis advisor said it 
ought to be."  From the dim past, I seem to remember similar rhetoric 
about "real timesharing."

David Casseres

Exclaimer:  Wow!