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In article <1925@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>Amen!  I think that by "true multitasking" most people mean "like the
>mainframe system I used in college," or "like my thesis advisor said it
>ought to be."  From the dim past, I seem to remember similar rhetoric
>about "real timesharing."

I agree with the silliness of the preemptive vs. non-preemptive multitasking
flame war (it can't rightfully be dignified with the term "debate"), but for
my money, the Mac won't be multotasking enough for me until it can:

Copy a file (or a disk) in the background!  While I'm doing something else,
like word processing!

How about it?  Am I doomed to eternal frustration at the sign of a modal
"18 files left" dialog box sitting stubbornly in the middle of my screen?
Or will I somedya be able to get that sucker into the background?

>David Casseres

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