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From: maddog@tolerant.UUCP (Bill Arnett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Amiga vs. Mac
Message-ID: <138@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:03:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:03:41 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:32:54 EDT
References: <495@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <5024@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: Tolerant Systems, Inc.  San Jose, CA
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> In article <495@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tecot@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Edward Tecot) writes:
> >  It ran two processes simultaneously and they took four
> >times as long as if the processes had been run consecutively.  Some
> >multitasking; it's there, but no one will want to use it.
> 
> I WOULD!  When I use the Mac, I usually use the Switcher with the
> following configuration:  Finder, a terminal emulator, and an
> application.  If the application were one that has to think for any
> period of time, I would want to be able to use the emulator while it is
> running.  Or, while transfering a file in the emulator I would like to
> be able to run the application or Finder.  In either case, the fact that
> the system slows down a little is not important, since the emulator is
> mostly I/O bound anyway.
> -- 
>     Barry Margolin
>     ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
>     UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar

I WOULD TOO!  There are rumors that future versions of Switcher may allow 
such things.
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  Bill Arnett             		{ucbvax}!tolerant!maddog
  Tolerant Systems, Inc. San Jose
  408/946-5667