19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
1:42 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
however. I tried to
initialize a diskette, and had to wait about 5 minutes after
the process ended
before it would let me do anything else, though it did
eventually let me back at
it.
That's pretty normal. It will take it a while to flush buffers and wake
back up -- rather, that's what I assume it's doing... :)
Funny thing, though, is that I remember people
claiming that
MAC OS was
multitasking. Windows allows me to play a game or whatever
when I start off on
a time-consuming task. This guy doesn't seem to want to do
that. I had to try
it on the second machine just to verify that the thing was
not just bum
hardware. It worked the same on the second box as well.
This gets really tangled right about now. What's your deffinition of
multitasking? Is the hardware capable of it? Yes. The software? Well,
It's co-operative. If you'd asked microsoft about their definition before
Abomination '95, they'd have told you that co-operative multitasking is
still multitasking too...
I have yet to figure out why they couldn't have done the disk reads/writes
in the background while you do some other things. I believe it's likely to
be a "left-over" from early days.
Funny thing is that if you can find a file-manager or the like that will
format disks/copy files, it's pretty likely that you can work around this
particular problem.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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