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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Lies, lies, they're telling us lies...
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Date: 1 Dec 89 20:04:17 GMT
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In article <Nov.29.22.45.00.1989.15112@pilot.njin.net> 
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
> Is there any multitasking OS that swaps between tasks/processes by
> swapping all of page 0?  I can't think of any.  Is this the technique
> that Mac's Switcher (is that what it's called?) or any of the similar
> programs for the Atari ST do?

The Macintosh does maintain some global state in low-memory, and 
MultiFinder has to swap the variables that are task-specific.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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