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Re: Apple?

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From: Peter Payne
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:40
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Henrik Wetterström <henke@hv.se> wrote:

> What I mean is that many people (mostly Mac fanatics) live in an illusion
> where they believe multitasking is NOT essential for future evolution.

Um, sorry, but I can download and do word processing at the same time. I
can play SimCity 2000 and copy files in the background at the same time.
I can't format disks and do anything else, however. Multitasking on
System 7 is not true Multitasking (I know), but it is present.

>In a few years would the Macintosh end up just like the amiga.

No, because there are MANY Macs out there.

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From: leto2@gol1.gol.com (Peter Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 21:40:36 +0900
Organization: Seishun Shitemasu - a bunch of guys with a vcr
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