Well, I'm not complaining, except that it wasn't what I was expecting the thing
to do.
It's not a problem if one can know in advance and make a pot of coffee.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech_at_Mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?
> >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.
>
> Certain hardware could do background read/write starting with 7.5.3 (?
> maybe .5). I used to do it with my Quarda 610. Also, as of OS 8.0,
> read/write can be done in the background on all hardware that supports OS
> 8.0 (32 bit clean, 040's or better). I regularly put long file copies in
> the background and continue doing other things.
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 15:34:42 GMT