[X4U] iPad news

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Fri Jan 29 17:01:29 PST 2010


At 7:55 PM -0500 1/29/10, John Kiss wrote:
>On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>So it isn't even like the .... (the name escapes me) feature prior 
>>to System 7 that allowed background processes?
>
>Multifinder?

No, that's not it.  Wikipedia to the rescue.  I was thinking of "Desk 
Accessories" (DA's).  Though I'm not sure how true "multitasking" is 
with regards to them, IIRC, prior to Mutltifinder it was more like 
task-switching.

Zane


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