Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!sunic!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Summary: true ? True ? TRUE ? Message-ID: <2352@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 20 Nov 89 17:23:07 GMT References: <9775@zodiac.ADS.COM> <39178@srcsip.UUCP> <36687@lanl.gov> <5267@internal.Apple.COM> <74117@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 23 In article <74117@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> wilson m liaw writes: > Are we talking about the same type of Multitasking here? I think Tom >was talking about true multitasking.( As in unix.) While the multitasking in >System 7.0 is like the current MultiFinder. Oh, NOOO ! Not this "TRUE" multitasking war again ! I think we've all settled on the non-preemptive multitasking and the pre-emptive multitasking being equally transparent to the user, since most mac applications follow the MultiFinder programmers guidelines. As long as the machine runs several applications simultaneously, I don't think this is much to discuss, actually, so why don't we move on to more interesting things, like... PROTECTED MEMORY ! (Which, by the way, is a requirement for "That other kind of" multitasking 8) The sun always shines in my mac h+ -- This .signature is longer than 4 lines. If you'd like to see it in whole, please send a note to me. I'm h+@nada.kth.se and also h+@proxxi.se 8')