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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Sheffield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
Date: 31 Mar 1996 20:29:56 GMT
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>Patrick Sheffield ([e-mail]) wrote:

>: Well, it's not a 9500, but it is an 8100 with 64 meg of ram and an ATTO
>: scsi controller. I'm not referring to the speed of the computer, rather the
>: /cooperation/ of the OS. I don't know what version your are running, but on
>: 7.5 when I drag a file from one drive to another and the little progress
>: window comes up, I can't use the finder for anything else until the copy
>: has completed.

>    Ahh.  The problem there isn't multitasking--it's the file system.  The
>file system is not multiTHREADED, so it can only do one thing at a time.
>(grim but true.)  In Copland, the Finder and file systems (and pretty
>much everything else) *is* multithreaded, so you can do a bunch of things
>at once with it.  (Say, duplicating a file, copy between disks,
>open/close files, etc. all at once.)  In the mean time, hopefully there
>is some product that would help....  Anybody know if DiskCharmer or some
>other extension would do the trick?  (You might want to search the
>shareware archives yourself--if you look, there ARE solutions to most of
>the shortcomings and flaws of the Mac OS.)

I do know that Copy Doubler (I believe it is part of Speed Doubler) will run in
the background, freeing up the finder. I also heard that using it can cause
corrupt files. Your explanation would explain that, trying to do file
system stuff while a copy was going on might well confuse the system...

Thanks,

Patrick Sheffield