Re: Dream OS

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From: S. Johnson
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 03:27

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bylee@phoenix.princeton.edu (Benjamin Y. Lee) wrote:
>In article <ericb.483.301E452A@psu.edu>, Eric Bennett <ericb@psu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Hence my question, does anything exist for Windows that will make it act
>>Mac-like?  I'm just curious, honestly...
>>
>
>It doesn't sound like it'd be that hard to do.  However, I defintely wouldn't
>want it to act exactly mac-like, because on a mac, all processing stops
>when a menu is open.  That really sucks.
>
>(yes I know someone wrote an extension that allows macs to keep running apps
>while you hold a menu open)

Well, obviously its been years since you've used a mac since that hasn't happened since System 7.1.  My downloads don't stop when I pause in a menu, my clock doesn't stop, Mathematica doesn't stop rendering images when I pause in a menu choice even in another application.

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Subject: Re: Dream OS
Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:27:43 GMT
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