Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec15125921@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>
>...but you can't even switch to another app when the foreground
>process is in a modal dialog--and this is with System 7, no less.  (I
>was reading in some files with Apple File Exchange and wanted to fire
>up a word processor to start messing with the files...no dice, at
>least not while the file translation is in progress.
>

You can switch applications when a "moveable modal dialog", a construct
that is kind of, but not really, new to system 7.

(Well, I don't think you can with Microsoft Word, but that's Microsoft's
problem...)

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)