Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Macintosh OS (was: 68000 and Workstations.) Keywords: Mac, OS, INIT, CDEV Message-ID: <_LZ3JEE@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 7 Jun 90 14:15:41 GMT References: <30273@ut-emx.UUCP> <76700207@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990Jun6.132037.8645@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 21 In article <1990Jun6.132037.8645@agate.berkeley.edu>, dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes: > I agree with your opinion in general: But as a resource manager, > Mac OS is one of the best OS in the world: You can let OS draw screens > instead of writing your own or link to libraries like DOS or UNIX. Translation: the Mac O/S does a very good job of managing the "display" resource. This is true. So does the Amiga O/S, but the Amiga O/S also manages memory, devices, primary and secondary storage, and CPU time. The Mac O/S doesn't do nearly as good a job at that. > Also not Mac's "Big Chunky OS" reduces application sizes for the > same reasons--Applications run on less codes of its own. Same on the Amiga. But you don't have to write your application as if it was a device driver, being areful to explicitly give up CPU time every 1/60th of a second so the grand illusion of multitasking can continue. > So I have a question--Where do we draw the line between OS and > others? The O/S manages machine resources. The toolbox is one of these resources. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.