Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!brendan From: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <445@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 27 Mar 91 00:47:28 GMT References: <1991Mar21.095051.29206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <593@genco.bungi.com> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 21 In <593@genco.bungi.com> rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes: >This makes me squirm a bit that Apple says MF is multitasking. At best, MF >is multiapplication. Try bringing up a dialog and watch all background >processes come to a hault. Try pulling down a menu bar (even under Sys7) >and watch everything stop. Surprisingly enough I get similar behaviour from a Sun 3/60 running Unix under Suntools. Pop up a menu and watch all your screen output freeze in midstride. Multitasking on the Mac gives the user control over what is using the CPU. This is important since the machine is only just providing a reasonable responsiveness as it is. Obviously if more cycles existed it would be nice to have a pre-emptive system, but I would rather have a Macintosh. -- Brendan Mahony | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz Department of Computer Science | heretic: someone who disgrees with you University of Queensland | about something neither of you knows Australia | anything about.