Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!floyd From: floyd@pawl.rpi.edu (Patrick J Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Multitasking on a II Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 21:43:37 GMT References: <10063@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <7TF^W^=@rpi.edu> <14730@smoke.brl.mil> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: pawl12.pawl.rpi.edu In article <14730@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >MMUs serve several purposes, interprocess protection being merely one >of them, and relatively unimportant at that in a single-user (albeit >multitasking) environment. There have been many implementations of Yes, I am fully aware that you can multitask in an unprotected environment. For serious work, however, I do NOT recommend this. Pointers get curdled all the time - I, for one, would get annoyed tremendously if my machine crashed every time this happened as I was debugging a program. >While I would never recommend a IIGS for multitasking, since at present >there isn't very much support along those lines, it's not particularly >slow. Mine is easily a match for typical IBM PC clones for significant >applications that I happen to care about. Some of us have higher standards than an IBM PC clone. Think 286, minimum. You can pick up an 8088 with monitor and drives and a shitload of memory for well under a grand. >I don't know who it would be that is "overrating" the IIGS. Apple >surely doesn't, the software industry in general doesn't, and the IIGS >is seldom mentioned favorably (or at all!) in computing publications. >Most experienced IIGS developers seem to think that its capabilities >are UNDERrated. Apparently, YOU, for one. >I second the motion for the fellow who suggested that if you don't >like your (free) IIGS you quit whining about it here. Particularly >since you don't know what you're talking about. Again, if you would stop your frothing and read the content, you might learn something. Please. I know my shit. Patrick Wetmore -- +------------------+ Could you fancy me as a pirate bold |Patrick J. Wetmore| Or a longship Viking warrior with the old gods on his side |floyd@pawl.rpi.edu| Well, I'm an inshore man and I'm nobody's hero +------------------+ But I'll make you tight for a windy night and a dark ride