Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!umigw!umiami!gross From: gross@umiami.miami.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: System Errors, MF --> Why??? Message-ID: <6364.266023a1@umiami.miami.edu> Date: 27 May 90 22:59:45 GMT Organization: Univ. of Miami (IR) Lines: 40 A friend of mine and me were having another one of our "religious" conversations about the virtues of the Mac vs. . Now both of us aren't such zealots that we won't use other machines, especially if that machine is better suited to do a job than another one. However, we do have our preferences. Mine is the Mac, his is more PC oriented. Anyway, we got about to talking about multitasking...and you know where this is leading. Then he made a very interesting statement... something like this: Apple is coming up with version 7 of their OS. When are they going to make it stable enough so that the least little problem doesn't bring up those system error messages and crash your system. Here's the meat of the matter: I and my friend would like to know two things from Apple and from other informed people: 1) Why did Apple decide to go with their version of multitasking instead of "true" multitasking like even a lowly Amiga 500 can do (and I don't want arguments that run like 'Well, if you do multitask on an A500, your system will get real slow...I ain't talking performance..I want to know what why certain capabilities have been put into a machine) 2) Why does Apple allow these system errors to continue? I can't believe that after 6.0.5 versions of the OS that they haven't found a better way to recover from various errors? Is it because everything runs in supervisor mode? Can't Apple protect certain sections of memory? I hope someone can answer these... Thanks! -- Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?) =========================================================================== Hey, wanna save the world? | Got sumtin' to say? gross@umiami.bitnet Nuke a Godless, Communist, | Pick and choose! gross@umiami.miami.edu gay whale for Christ. | gross@miavax.ir.miami.edu - Anonymous | =========================================================================== The University of Miami has a lovely fountain.