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- From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- In-Reply-To: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:12:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <SKNKWRKS.92Dec15125921@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
- References: <Bz408F.Ixo@news.iastate.edu> <75599@apple.apple.COM> <bazyar.724391662@teal>
- <BzAEK6.Lpt@rice.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:59:21 GMT
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- In article <BzAEK6.Lpt@rice.edu> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong) writes:
- >In article <bazyar.724391662@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
- >>
- >> And that's too bad, because it wouldn't have been much more difficult
- >>to do it the right way. Stopping all tasks while in a modal dialog
- >>is one example where the cooperative philosophy breaks down when
- >>applied on top of a non-multitasking system (as MultiFinder was).
- >
- >Except that MultiFinder doesn't stop everything when the front application
- >is in a modal dialog...
-
- ...but you can't even switch to another app when the foreground
- process is in a modal dialog--and this is with System 7, no less. (I
- was reading in some files with Apple File Exchange and wanted to fire
- up a word processor to start messing with the files...no dice, at
- least not while the file translation is in progress.
-
- Methinks this is extremely lame. My 286, running DESQview, does a
- better job than this. (Granted, my 286 doesn't read Mac disks...but I
- have no need for that from my 286--and only very limited use for it in
- my GS.)
-
- _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
- / v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today! Ask me about SoftDAC--digital
- (IIGS( (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis audio for your Apple IIe/IIc!
- \_^_/ --==## "Apple II Forever" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ##==--
-