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title: "Alternative to True Multitasking"
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excerpt: "n the March 1995 issue of QREVIEW there appeared an article titled \"BEYOND QUILL\" that expressed the sentiment regarding whole disks full of Spellcheckers, whose only service to the user was to indicate how many spelling mistakes were printed in the document just produced is a logical one. In order to correct those mistakes, what…"
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# Alternative to True Multitasking

n the March 1995 issue of QREVIEW there appeared an article titled “BEYOND QUILL” that expressed the sentiment regarding whole disks full of Spellcheckers, whose only service to the user was to indicate how many spelling mistakes were printed in the document just produced is a logical one. In order to correct those mistakes, what has the user to do?? – why, go to the bookshelf and take off the Dictionary, which he/she could have done in the first place!