Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!cmcl2!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr13.014000.29394@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 13 Apr 91 01:40:00 GMT References: <91087.123233EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> <1991Apr2.024426.28729@isc.rit.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 40 In article <1991Apr2.024426.28729@isc.rit.edu> jjwcmp@isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko) writes: > >With all this talk about multitasking (it seems like a never ending >subject), I thought about the places where I could really use the >ability to switch from one task to another: > If you really want to learn a lot about multitasking, you should try to find someone who has a true multitasking computer, annd then compare it to thge multifinder or system 7. Windows 3.0 for the IBM is nnot that great at multitasking, but GEOS for the IBM does a good job. If you want to see some machines that have multitasking perfected, check out an Amiga or a UNIX workstation. It is hard to understand multitasking just by looking at the multifinbder. In fact there are many limitations on the Mac that need to be overcome before true multitasking. For example, open up a terminal program, such as ZTerm. Then start sending a big file. Next, open a DA. The terminal will stop sending. In fact, even by selecting a menu or the title bar of a window you will freeze the terminal sending process. This is not good. Another major problem is memory. Mac programs assume that most of the system memory will be free. When it is multitasking, it will want a big chunk of memory oor it won't work. It may also damage the memory of another program. On an Amiga or a UNIX system, this will never happen. A 10k application will only use about 10k. Therefor, if you have 1 meg, you can run that application 100 times! I anxiously await to see System 7. I only hope it will run on my computer...otherwise I will have to stay with 6.05. > >Jeff >-- -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.