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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
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Subject: Re: Thank You!
Message-ID: <1991May16.173713.15483@MDI.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 17:37:13 GMT
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In article <1991May15.233457.23194@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
>In article <1991May15.195822.25192@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Maximum Slackness ) writes:
>>jerome@ee.fit.edu writes:
>>
>>>The Next Question:
>>>    What will system 8.0 look like?
>>
>>                 Unix.
>
>No, but seriously... :)
>
>How many mac-addicts out there *really* expect to see a system 8? Not just
>soon, but ever?  If you think the next system release will ever make it
>out, what will it be like?  Will we finally have protected memory, or
>preemptive multitasking?  It seems to me that such niceties (necessities!)
>will not make it into the MacOS without a total rewrite, and who knows how
>long that could take...any opinions?

About 2 years. Apple just did it for System 7...
The folks at Apple did one hell of a good job!

Jack Brindle
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