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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Macs/Amigas vs PCs
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:29:06 GMT
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- In article <1ffvsaINNabc@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
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- >Wow that's just begging for a flame, and in fact completelye
- >erroneous. The mac could multitask long before Windows. Back when
- >Jerry Pournell was waxing rhapsodic about multihour Desqview marathons
- >to get an addition 10K of low memory per "window", Multifinder
- >provided very usable easily as stable as pre 3.1-windows multitasking
- >for *all* macs with at least 2 megs of ram. An argument could be made
- >that macintosh multitasking is not "true" preemptive multitasking but
- >making it so would have completely invalidated the entire software
- >base.
-
- Yeah.. I remember way back when. No one I knew (unless he had
- 4 or 5 Meg in his Mac - remember it cost a real bundle back then)
- ran Multifinder. I remember playing with it and thinking it was
- neat - then the owner of the machine used it a little later and
- it froze and he goes "WHO TURNED ON THE ^%&^#(%^$(@^%@$&* MULTI-
- FINDER!!!!!?????" He had 2 Megs I think.. in a Mac II.
-
- Meanwhile I was happily running Telnet, Ize and Wordperfect on
- a Zenith 386 with Desqview and 2 Megs RAM..
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