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From: ajauch@orion.oac.uci.edu (Alex Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
Keywords: Macintosh
Message-ID: <272F3920.23750@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 20:50:40 GMT
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In <5485@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) writes:


>In article <1990Oct29.195413.7784@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>>	Can somebody explain to me why the average Mac user, say a typical
>>office secretary, or a scientist who just wants to do word processing, data
>>graphing, and figure preparation, or a (non-CS) student typing papers (or
>>just about anybody not doing programming or major number crunching) needs
>>VM?  OK, so you can't run Unix on it, but so what?

>There have been several replies to this, mostly along the lines of what
>I want is what I need, and I want VM because ..., usually larger memory
>capacity. A point that seems to be missed is that whilst the greater
>memory of VM is useful, the protected memory is ESSENTIAL for people doing
>real work on their multifinder machine. It money depends on it, you
>cannot afford to have one process go wild and destroy the memory
>allocated to other processes.

Yes, Certainly.  However, this has no bearing on the Mac v IBM debate we seem
to have fallen into.  Windows does not offer true multi-tasking nor protected
memory.  OS/2 v 2.10 does but is not really available yet.  

The problem here is we have some IBM people attacking Apple for some inherently
Mac type things (9" mono monitor) on a Mac group.  You wonder about the
response?  I'm not responding to this poster here but to the thread in general.


>Another point is that VM reduces the complexity of the code writting
>process, which cannot be bad for the end user. If makes things easier
>for the programmer you need it.

I would be estatic if DOS or MacOS would support it fully.  I'm looking
forward to pounding on the new version of OS/2.

-- 
Alex Jauch
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