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- From: scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon)
- Subject: Re: Switch-It! Press Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.002729.1545@jlc.mv.com>
- Organization: John Leslie Consulting, Milford NH
- References: <1i0r6lINNooe@gap.caltech.edu> <76047@apple.apple.COM> <C084Hn.3C0@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:27:29 GMT
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- In article <C084Hn.3C0@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- >
- >MultiFinder is considered by most people to not be a multitasking OS. You
- >can play all the word games you like with cooperative multitasking but that's
- >just not going to convince anyone who knows the situation.
- >
-
- Indeed. MultiFinder is touted as multitasking but that's pushing it a bit;
- without *pre-emptive* multitasking it's still just Super-Switcher. As Scott
- Anderson (I think) said, it's at the mercy of disk drive/SCSI/serial port/etc.
- access, which is often VERY annoying (STUPID PROGRAM! I DIDN'T *REALLY* WANT
- TO UNSTUFF THAT 20MB ARCHIVE!).
-
- Oh well.
-
- Apologies for getting off-subject. Whatever you want to compare it to,
- Switch-It! still sounds cool. A vast improvement over just plain Finder.
-
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