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Article #35782Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1988 04:24
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1988 04:24
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I have one question about this whole issue:
Suppose I'm running a Multifinder-aware terminal emulator, I start a
download, and then switch into another application. I know that the
download works fine so long as the application calls WaitNextEvent
frequently. At some point the application puts up a modal dialogue,
which, as we know, prohibits switching. Question: does it also
prevent the background download from running?
If the download is prevented, too, then I believe this is what someone
was talking about when they said that Apple has inextricably connected
input focus with computation.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.) Message-ID: <34550@think.UUCP> Date: 24 Dec 88 04:24:41 GMT References: <1988Dec16.191309.21623@cs.rochester.edu> <326@internal.Apple.COM> <807@esl.UUCP> <747@lts.UUCP> Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: barmar@kulla.think.com (Barry Margolin) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 19