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Article #17681Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
From: Gary Samad
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1987 23:23
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1987 23:23
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In article <4558@nsc.nsc.com> curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry) writes: }The Apple people I am talking too are being very careful about refering to the }new finder as a background tasker. Initially the print spooler will be the }only thing programmed to be used thusly. Other programs are on the way from }second party people. It's the press in their usually uninformed and ignorant }rampages that are calling it multitasking. Let's not blame Apple for the }problems of the press. No, it was in the Apple booth where I saw this software demonstrated and on the wall directly above the machine that was being used it said: "The first generation multitasking system" This was not the press.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!gary From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee! Message-ID: <6596@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 19:23:19 EDT Article-I.D.: eddie.6596 Posted: Mon Aug 17 19:23:19 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 06:39:06 EDT References: <6565@eddie.MIT.EDU> <3632@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <4558@nsc.nsc.com> Reply-To: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 14