Is this an overall OS limit, or an I/O limit? I mean, I can get some pretty
hellacious FTP rates on 100+MB files in transmit, with multiple transfers
going. The MacOS, especially with the changes in 9.0 DOES support some
pre-emptive threads, and you can, (I think) run I/O processes with this. The
OS is a lot better at multitasking than it once was, and the "Mac OS is not
a multitasking operating system so right now that is just not possible."
issue sounds like it needs revisiting.
john
> From: Ryan La Riviere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:49:06 -0500
> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Retro 4.2A Mac question
>
> On 12/16/1999 somewhere around the time of 14:37 -0800, Matthew Tevenan spoke
> about "RE: Retro 4.2A Mac question":
>
>
>> Reply to: RE: Retro 4.2A Mac question
>> Ryan,
>>
>> At this time Retrospect can only do one backup to one destination at a
>> time. The Mac OS is not a multitasking operating system so right now that is
>> just not possible.
>>
>> Windows NT is a multitasking operating system, although Retrospect for
>> Windows does not have this capability at this time either. This is something
>> we'd like to implement in a future release.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Too bad, on the Mac, you can't have it as separate processes within Retro.
> Something similar to being able to download via FTP from multiple sites at the
> same time within the same program.
>
> Here's to wishing.
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