On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Peter wrote:
>
>> No, imho it sounds very much like multitasking focused on user
>> experience.
>
> (Snipped lots of stuff about Linux vs. Windows. Just as a reminder: my
> point was not a comparison of Windows with all other systems out there. It
> was that pre-OS X Macs didn't seem to be able to run applications
> concurrently effectively, in the sense that there weren't really any server
> apps to speak of for pre-OS X Macs. And that tasks like compiling or
> rendering in the background don't seem to have been known to Mac people
> before OS X.)
>
> To make this story short... show me a pre-OS X Mac with a web server
> running PHP and MySQL or something similar out there (I should be able to
> connect to one, shouldn't I? Lots of Win2k servers I can connect to) and
> I'll call myself corrected :)

Ok, you win. But you can connect to an iMac over ethernet and ping it 
and share files while the user is using it.

Peter
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