Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!husc6!sunfs3!kent
From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Keywords: cooperative preemtive multitasking 7.0 8.0
Message-ID: <564@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 20 Nov 89 17:45:33 GMT
References: <9775@zodiac.ADS.COM> <39178@srcsip.UUCP> <36687@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <36687@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>I've heard that multitasking has been dropped from system 7 for the
>Mac...Why?

You are wrong, it hasn't been dropped.  

System 7.0 never was to add ``preemtive multitasking''.  ``Cooperative
multitasking'' has been here for a long time.

I can print while downloading while talking to our Unix machine while
compiling while looking at a little round-windowed clock while...until
I run out of computrons and things get too slow.  Yes, things will
come to a stop if one of the programs decides to never yield any cpu
time.

Wait at least until *8.0* to fix that.

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