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Re: Home style Multitasking perhaps (Request for System ver 7 or 8)

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From: Tony Jacobs
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 01:04
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In article <41c54fc4.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.UUCP (John F. Mansfield) writes:

>You can, the bus will accept several devices, you could daisy chain 2
>keyboards, a trackball, a digitizer pad and finally a mouse with no
>problem.  The mouse is the limiting problem having no extension socket
>like all of the others above.

I know you can plug in many things to the ADB, the Mac can't tell which one is
which and therefore you can't have one process using one device and another
using a different one. Like a mouse for each process.
-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
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From: t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
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Subject: Re: Home style Multitasking perhaps (Request for System ver 7 or 8)
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Date: 2 Mar 89 01:04:40 GMT
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