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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Multitasking
Message-ID: <854@newave.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 02:04:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: newave.854
References: <15@ryptyde.UUCP> <5528@cernvax.cern.ch>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <5528@cernvax.cern.ch> marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty) writes:
> 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?

> 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 :-)

Oh damn!  And my IIsi manual claims that it will run 5 billion processes
at once.  I should have waited for 64-bit clean ROMs....

-john-

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