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From: mpretzel@cs.utexas.edu (Benjamin Allums)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Changes for preemptive multitasking
Keywords: MULTITASKING
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Date: 14 May 91 05:50:06 GMT
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In regard to AUX 2.0 multitasking Mac apps pre-emptively . . . it ain't 
happening.

AUX pre-emptively multitasks AUX programs, UNIX programs, and a special version
of MultiFinder.  Mac apps run just like they would on a Mac system with a 
normal MultiFinder, co-operatively.  So, MultiFinder is a UNIX task which
is pre-emptively multitasked which just so happens to co-operatively multi-
task apps in its own memory protected application space.