Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tolerant.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!tolerant!maddog 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 Article-I.D.: tolerant.138 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 Lines: 24 > 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. -- Bill Arnett {ucbvax}!tolerant!maddog Tolerant Systems, Inc. San Jose 408/946-5667