>it was my understanding the OS8 introduced "true" multitasking -- which I
>can assure you my Wintel machine doesn't have. I be batch copying files
>from three different directories, for example, at the same time.
8's Finder is multi-threaded, which allows that particular application to perform as
many (more or less) internal tasks at once as the processor can handle without
choking. Such Finder-related tasks include file copies, trash emptying, disk erasing,
file list manipulating, etc.
>I can have eudora checking mail in the background while I'm using Netscape
>or BBEdit or PhotoShop .... Isn't that multitasking?
Sort of. It's Apple's 'cooperative' multitasking, a form of multitasking (albeit a
less elegant one). For a good demonstration of it's weakness, click and hold on a menu
item the next time you're making your Mac work (such as downloading a file, etc.).
Watch the whole thing come to a grinding halt until you release your mouse button.
>Finally, I don't find my Mac to be in any way at a disadvantage from the
>wintel machine. Wait - one thing - in explorer I can highlight a file and
>hit the delete key to kill it -- on the mac, from the finder, i have to
>drag the file/folder to the trash. of course, emptying the trash is easier
>on the mac -- mine is programmed to work with the shift-control-delete keys
Get 8 and you'll have no reason to pine at all. Highlight the file and hit
command-delete. File zips right to the trash. This feature, along with the
control-drag alias feature [1], is available for System 7.5 users, incidentally, via
the Hidden Finder Features control panel.
[1] Control-click on a file and drag it to a different window. Presto! File stays in
it's original location and an alias is created at the destination (and without the
pesky "alias" suffix attached to the alias' file name).
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http://www.chaparral.los-angeles.ca.us/
Member, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC)
"It should stand as an amazement to us that in our age when so many demand their
"rights" that they make this claim as they simultaneously throw off self-government.
The resulting atmosphere of this spiritual and political vacuum is tyranny in the form
of the messiah-state."
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