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- From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- Message-ID: <SKNKWRKS.92Dec13134739@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 20:47:39 GMT
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- In article <jmk3.724149742@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) writes:
- >makes multitasking difficult? _Maybe_ they sacrificed multi-tasking for speed
- >(well, speed is probably hurt w/o multitasking), development time/effort,
- >price, and maybe they didn't think the IIGS needed multitasking.
- >I'm pretty sure the Mac toolbox also isn't reentrant. I doubt Windows is
- >reentrant. Multitasking (not true multitasking, but something convincing enough
- >to users) does not require reentrancy.
-
- ...as is demonstrated by DESQview. DOS (either DR or MS-) isn't
- reentrant, but DESQview does a better job of multitasking DOS apps
- than Windoze...and probably does a better job of multitasking than Mac
- System 7 as well (if you're stuck in a modal dialog, you can't switch
- to another process...try using Apple File Exchange as an example).
-
- I run DESQview on my 286...I can keep my BBS running in the background
- while doing something else in the foreground.
-
- >And, what month in '83 did the IIe come out? (ie- will it hit 10 years old
- >soon?)
-
- I remember when I got my IIe...one of Apple's promotional flyers had a
- picture of the IIe "badge" (the one on the lid) at the bottom of the
- cover, with this caption above: "Of all the personal computers in
- history, only one has been around long enough to have a history." :-)
-
- (Or something like that.)
-
- _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
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