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From: marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Multitasking
Message-ID: <5528@cernvax.cern.ch>
Date: 3 Jun 91 13:59:31 GMT
References: <15@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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In article <15@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Just what is different about how the "new" Process Manager and the old
>MultiFinder handle multitasking? I read in BYTE that each application
>is given a 64-bit ID number. Does that mean Sys7 will run up to about
>18.5 quintillion programs?! :-)

There are undocumented special bits in this 64-bits ID number
(Process Serial Number). My guess is that only 32 bits are used
for the processes count, so that System 7 will run only 4.2 billion
processes at a time :-)
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