Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <4197@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 3 Mar 91 04:37:41 GMT References: <11628@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4176@gmdzi.gmd.de> <29159@cs.yale.edu> <17106@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 14 aard@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Anthony C. Ard) writes: >What is multitasking really like in Windows? How is it better than >Multifinder? For example that the memory management for all the code and data of the involved task - which may not fit into main memory together - is dynamic. No memory partitioning, no polling. The windows programmer has to do or know nothing special in order to allow his program to multitask. Wolfgang Strobl #include