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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Questions about multitasking on the mac
Message-ID: <13486@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 17:23:44 GMT
References: <1991May11.191114.27564@potomac.ads.com> <1991May12.194909.18585@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <1991May12.194909.18585@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> dickie@math.wisc.edu (Garth Dickie) writes:
>In article <1991May11.191114.27564@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>>
>Of course, MPW tools seem to solve it, but I think they use the first model,
>calling out to a timeslicer.  Anybody who's designed an MPW compiler tool care
>to comment?

In an MPW tool you simply call one of the cursor routines
(SpinCursor/RotateCursor) to yield the CPU.  The MPW Shell takes care of
processing events.-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
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