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From: jap@convex.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh OS
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Date: 1 Jun 90 14:14:03 GMT
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firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:

>In article <54992@microsoft.UUCP> edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) writes:

>>Cooperative multitasking does not guarantee best response time for the
>>foreground process.  Actually, it offers the possibility of exceptional
>>and uncontrolled degradation of the foreground process.

>Right on!  I get to share a Mac with the rest of this floor.  It is a
>Mac IIcx, with power, size, and capability that would have been
>unbelievable 10 years ago.  It has a print spooler.

er, uh.... Not to start a "MY computer is better than YOUR computer
	religious war", but I think it may be time to upgrade
	your Mac IIcx to an Amiga 3000. Round robin prioritized 
	*preemptive* scheduler.

    It does not by default give the "foreground" process higher priority,
    (it does not differentiate between fore/background things - they
    all be tasks to it), but a simple PD hack will up the priority of the
    task controlling the window that is active - giving the desired effect.