Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:05

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In <rmcassid-2108951308280001@dante.eng.uci.edu> rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes:

>In article <4130pi$59d@news.net-connect.net>, dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu wrote:
> 
>> That's true.  I can run Warp and cruise the Net with the built-in apps 
>> (Web browers, ftp, gopher, newreader, telnet, archie), and **STILL**
>> play Falcon 3.0 in it.  And hit Alt-Tab and switch over to Aces over
>> Europe, and hit it again to go to Civilization, all while ftp'ing and
>> d/l'ing from several sources.  Cool!
>> 
>> Can the Mac do this thing?
>
>Sure. So long as the game isn't *designed* to hog the whole CPU. Many

Which shows one of the reasons why MacOS is so brain dead.  One application
can decide when the OS takes control over the system and not the other
way 'round, as in any sane OS.

Dan
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