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In article <42c4lv$a20@news1.panix.com>, Mark Swearingen
<mark@ephesus.com> wrote:

> Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:
> 

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> =>Solution to what problem?  It's like "true" multitasking.  People
> =>keep saying it's better because it solves the problems of premtive
> =>multitasking.  The funny think is that I'm just not having those
> =>problems to a significant extent.  It maybe that it's somewhat
> =>better, but it's clear that it's more of a religous belief.
> 
> You obviously don't do very much with your computer.  Under Win 3.1 I 
> frequently run into situations where I can't Alt-Tab to another application 
> because the app I'm in won't release the CPU.  For example, when saving a 
> large file.  If the Mac doesn't have preemptive multitasking, then I would 
> imagine that such problems are frequent on that platform as well.

Two things can be read from this:
 1) Multitasking is better.
 2) Your applications are not written very well.

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