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From: death@public.BTR.COM (David Burrowes  death@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Changes for preemptive multitasking
Summary: Doesn't AUX do just that?
Keywords: MULTITASKING
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Date: 14 May 91 02:32:50 GMT
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>>Mac - Implementing a pre-emptive multi-tasking OS would guarantee software 
>>      incompatibility for all programs.  Certainly they could be modified and

It's my understanding that, under AUX 2.0, one can run most Mac applications
as separate processes in the preemptively multisking AUX system.  That is,
most Mac apps (those that aren't doing heinous nasty things =) are       
apparently happy as clams living in a preemptively multitasking world.
NOTE! I have never seen this!  I have only been assured this by one who has
used the system.  If this info is not accurate, I'd love to know!    


>How are we going to let simultaneously running programs share the
>menu bar ?  It would be nice to have a whole program in a window, so
>I could do two things at once without having to put one in front
>of the other.

Probably much like the NeXT does, I expect.  The current set of menus will
reflect whatever application the user is working on at that time (thus,
they'll switch just as they do with Multifinder now).  This would not work
if you have more than one user working on the screen at once.  But, that
messes up a lot of other things too.  =)  

\david john burrowes		death@btr.com