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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Macintosh OS
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.174655.335@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 90 17:46:55 GMT
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>>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.

  How about something much easier? Why not just rap on the noggins of
those who wrote the spooler in the first place to make it more friendly?
I find it pretty darn easy to find good places to give up cpu time, even 
with code I didn't write. Don't get me wrong; when (someday) the Mac does
preemption, I won't complain. But I hardly think it is _only_ way to
achieve smooth multitasking. For the spooler situation, I'd rather we
had smarter printers with hard disks (and Virtual memory!) or extended
file servers (a definite option today) than waste some resources on my
personal machine.

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