Re: Switch-It! Press Release

[scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon)]

In article <C084Hn.3C0@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>
>MultiFinder is considered by most people to not be a multitasking OS. You
>can play all the word games you like with cooperative multitasking but that's
>just not going to convince anyone who knows the situation.
> 

Indeed.  MultiFinder is touted as multitasking but that's pushing it a bit;
without *pre-emptive* multitasking it's still just Super-Switcher.  As Scott
Anderson (I think) said, it's at the mercy of disk drive/SCSI/serial port/etc.
access, which is often VERY annoying (STUPID PROGRAM! I DIDN'T *REALLY* WANT
TO UNSTUFF THAT 20MB ARCHIVE!).

Oh well.

Apologies for getting off-subject.  Whatever you want to compare it to, 
Switch-It! still sounds cool.  A vast improvement over just plain Finder.

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