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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utgpu!utstat!philip
  3. From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
  4. Subject: Re: Switch-It! Press Release
  5. Message-ID: <C084Hn.3C0@utstat.toronto.edu>
  6. Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
  7. References: <Bzz4G6.9vK@csn.org> <1i0r6lINNooe@gap.caltech.edu> <76047@apple.apple.COM>
  8. Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:12:58 GMT
  9. Lines: 16
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  11. In article <76047@apple.apple.COM> unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
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  14. >
  15. >yeah I complained about the same thing you did and think it should be
  16. >compared to Switcher..  Maybe it could say something like "SwitchIt 
  17. >compares to the old Mac program Switcher, the non-multitasking predecessor
  18. >to MultiFinder"
  19.  
  20. MultiFinder is considered by most people to not be a multitasking OS. You
  21. can play all the word games you like with cooperative multitasking but that's
  22. just not going to convince anyone who knows the situation.
  23.  
  24. Philip McDunnough
  25. University of Toronto
  26. philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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