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In article <41fqo4$br3@news.ycc.yale.edu>, abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu
(Aaron Bergman) wrote:

> Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote:
> : Multitasking == pre-emptive multitasking.
> : I am unwilling to accept some marketing manager's definition of
multitasking.

> I do not believe that cooperative multitasking is a term invented
> by marketer. I'd guess that if you looked in comp. sci. journals,
> you'd see it before the IBM PC or the Mac even existed (someone
> please correct me if I am wrong.)

You misinterpreted Jim's posting.  The key part of it is that "*he* is
unwilling to accept...".  Don't make the mistake of equating Jim Williams
with that of a sane, rational human being.  He is more like the preachers
on college campuses or someone who has seen The Net once too often. 
Logical, well thought out arguments won't do anything against his
position.  He never lets little things like facts get in his way.  He is
close-minded.  You won't change his beliefs, since they are not founded in
rational thought.  If he can't attack the message, then he will attack the
messenger (watch him attack my reply instead of showing us any evidence
that cooperative multitasking is a marketing term.  I have in the past
posted about concurrent programming books where they mention cooperative
multitasking and never mentioned the Mac, but I guess the people who write
these books would be, according to Jim, Apple and Microsoft marketing
types instead of well respected computer scientists, because they wrote
something that was against his position).  If he can't attack either, he
just waits until the thread dies down and then reposts his drivel,
probably hoping that we aren't paying attention.
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