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From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine)
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Subject: Re: Turning off time slices in S7READ/NEXT
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Date: 3 Jun 91 14:27:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.015035.5222@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>And this brings us into the brave new world of multithreaded programs and real
>operating systems.

Sigh. Another "what a terrible operating systeem is MacOS" message. :-)

 Since, as we all know, Apple is devoting substantial company
>resources to their new, non-Mac machine to be released at the end of '92 (yeah
>sure, we all think Apple will stick to a schedule :-) ), it would seem to me
>far more sensible to devote effort to creating a decent OS from scratch than
>patching an existing mess. Thus my conclusion is that we are never going to see
>this on Macs.
>

That certainly sounds possible.


>Anyone know what the new OS will be? My choice would be to use a Mach kernel to
>stop wasting time and get a real OS right away,

Oh yes, by all means, a _real_ OS. I'll have to get over the enjoyment
of my fantasy OS, tho. :-)

I don't know Mach and I have a doubt that Apple will ever build its
main consumer OS on Unix, so I can't postulate what the next OS will
be. Maybe it won't be a "real" OS. Maybe another make-believe OS! Most
likely, it will be built from the ground up, not based on any existing
system. 

 then add object oriented
>extensions from PenPoint to that, plus a final Mac compatibility box+ Toolbox
>ala AIX on that. I guess we Mac users will become like Apple II users- never
>abandoned by Apple, and with our own weak programs that perform as well as the
>hardware will allow, but destined for extinction in 10 years.
>

I guess I'm just a realist. No computer lasts forever. If the
Macintosh line as we know it today is not essentially extinct in 10
years, I will be mighty surprised. The Macintosh has only been
available as a commercial product for eight years, and already the
older machines in the line are in exactly the situation described
above "... never abandoned by Apple, and with our own weak programs
that perform as well as the hardware will allow..."

That's just the way things are and will be. There's not a computer
company on earth that can avoid this (or wants to, probably). :-)

>Maynard Handley
>
>


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