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ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) writes:

>In article <danpop.824304112@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

>One thing I don't know the answer to, though, is why the CMT System 7
>makes users wait for printing and disk formatting.  I'm sure it didn't
>have to.  Luckily I can print in the background and I rarely need to
>format floppies.  But it's still kind of annoying when everything stops
>if I click on a menu or on a window title bar or something.

We've been saying over and over again that you have a choice whether you 
want background printing or not.  When you select your printer in the 
chooser, just click "on" under background printing.  It's been that way 
for at least seven years.  As far as background disk formatting  it 
wouldn't do any good on most 68K based Macs because every time you access 
the disk, it has to disable interrupts making performance horrible 
anyway.  The disk hardware problem has been remedied on all P-Macs and a 
few 68K Macs.