Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Macintosh OS Message-ID: <:SY35CD@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 6 Jun 90 13:48:58 GMT References: <1990Jun6.055847.14995@d.cs.okstate.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 In article <1990Jun6.055847.14995@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes: > Let me say again that preemptive multitasking is not a necessity for > 99% of the Mac community. I won't mind when the Mac does do preemption, > though. I have yet to see any reason other than poor programming that > cooperative multitasking may be unacceptable for most people. How about the fact that programmers may have better things to do with their time than warp code to fit into the windowing universe? I realise that on the mac 90% of the programs are 90% user-interface, but that's not always the best way to do things. A compiler, for example, really has no business calling GetNextEvent *ever*. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.