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From: Chris.Parson@f54.n382.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Chris Parson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: re: Why supervisor mode???
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Date: 11 Nov 89 12:54:01 GMT
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        This is just speculation, but when the Mac was designed the
concept was "computing appliance".  They wanted something that would
be about the computer equivalent of a toaster to operate.  So they
neglected to support hard disks ( no HFS ), provided no expansion
capability, and gave programrs access to the entire instruction set,
since they would never need the supervisor mode to do multitasking!
Things have changed!

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