Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 680x0 vs 80x86 Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 07:17:18 GMT References: <92@ryptyde.UUCP> <4671.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <105@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun24.051233.3203@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun25.062028.2265@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 41 In article <1991Jun25.062028.2265@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > >>Too bad MPW doesn't multitask. > > This is more a multi-threading, rather than multitasking example, since >the MPW editor and compiler run in the same address space. I guess you >can argue semantics of multi-threading vs multitasking. > You bet I can argue the value of multitasking (what you call multithreading). Like the capability to run TWO MPW tools at the same time (I run a dozen CLI tools on my Amiga simoultaneously with ease). How about the ability to make an application out of multiple tasks? How about the ability to RUN 10 Applications and still use ZERO percent of the CPU time? How about the ability to run multiple applications on a 512K machine? Or how about those fancy hard disk compression utilities that abound on the Mac? Just rename a folder with a few hundred files in it, and the Mac goes to sleep for as long as it takes to decompress all those files. >>When you start up a compile in MPW, you can't >>use your MPW editor to browse your files. This was a horrible design decision >>when they made MPW in the first place. Since multifinder isn't a true multitasking >>solution, the best you can hope for is to run two HUGE copies of MPW and maybe >>the MPW tools will be friendly enough to allow you to compile from one and edit >>from the other. > > Or else, you use a different editor to edit your programs... like >Alpha, the Emacs clone. > And it only eats another meg of RAM if you want to be able to edit at will. At least there is a REAL editor for the Mac :) Does it feature multiple UNDO/REDO like CygnusEd? -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************