Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking vs MultiFinder (was Amy 68030 vs Mac IIcx) Message-ID: <10270@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 20 Mar 90 19:01:12 GMT References: <3137@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <21904@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <10143@cbmvax.commodore.com> <10155@portia.Stanford.EDU> <10213@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7267@goofy.Apple.COM> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article <7267@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >In article <10213@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave >Haynie) writes: >> popular opinions you've heard) Apple spent more time making A/UX have a >> very limited capability to run a single Mac program at a time, rather >That's no longer true with the introduction of A/UX 2.0. With A/UX 2.0 >you can run several Macintosh programs at once, at the same time as X >appliations and other UNIX applications. The ability to run standard >Macintosh binaries is what sets A/UX apart from any other UNIX system. I just heard about this. It sounds pretty neat. It also is pretty much implying that Macintosh binaries will multitask better under UNIX than under Multifinder at present. Which, if you consider that under UNIX, the Mac binaries can have a virtual Mac to run on thanks to management of the system by a real multitasking kernel with memory management, rather than just being "well behaved" in software. And you should get virtual memory for the Mac applications today, rather than waiting for the new Mac OS. At least it would seem so, I don't suppose this is something that the user would necessarily be given control over. So, is there any remaining reason for a reasonably equipped Mac II to run the plain Mac OS, other than perhaps the cost of A/UX? >Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough