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From: ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Macintosh OS (was: 68000 and Workstations.)
Message-ID: <37@voa3.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 16:43:14 GMT
References: <30273@ut-emx.UUCP> <76700207@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990May24.114553.10301@phri.nyu.edu> <BZS.90May24174257@world.std.com>
Reply-To: ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern)
Organization: Voice of America, Washington, D.C.
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For those of use who don't have any experience with the Mac OS, could
someone explain what its deficiencies are with respect to multitasking?
Is it that the OS doesn't do time-slicing?  Does a context switch have
to wait for some event at the application level?  How is multitasking
implemented?
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Chris Kern			     Voice of America, Washington, D.C.
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