Xref: utzoo comp.arch:16371 comp.os.misc:1212 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Macintosh OS Message-ID: <6547@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 7 Jun 90 19:23:23 GMT References: <1990Jun6.055847.14995@d.cs.okstate.edu> <:SY35CD@xds13.ferranti.com> <41684@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Followup-To: comp.os.misc Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 20 (Note followup again, ok?) In article <41684@apple.Apple.COM> daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke) writes: > What if the user, a programmer in this case, wants to stop the compile?? Uhm, Unix handles that just fine. So did RSTS, RT11, VMS, etc. Why should an application program have to implement parts of the OS in order to be useful? >"Hey where'd you learn to shoot like that?" ... "At the 7-11." Not quite. The response was "7-11". Only. (8-)) -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "It's a pity the universe doesn't use [a] segmented seanf@sco.COM | architecture with a protected mode." uunet!sco!seanf | -- Rich Cook, _Wizard's Bane_ (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.