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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.212557.5290@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 21:22:13 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.185243.29169@d.cs.okstate.edu>, minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes...
[...]
>  As I said before, it would be Real Nice to have the Mac OS rewritten
>from scratch so these problems could be fixed properly. That would also
>allow (require?) a rethinking of what sort of globals programs can
>access. This would make protected memory A LOT easier to implement than
>figuring out how to do it with the current OS and programming model. At
>the same time, we could fix things like lack of DMA support,
>non-preemptive multitasking, etc.  This is why I (as in me, not
>necessarily eveyone and his brother) am very intersted in the NeW NeXT
>machines, where these fundamental OS issues are better dealt with
>already.

About 12-18 months ago Sculley made a big noise about re-writing the Mac OS
from the ground up.  Obviously that isn't 7.0.  8.0?  Anyone want to hazard any
guesses about due date?  :-> :0>  :=>


Robert


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