Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!krk From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Why I Would Like "True Multitasking" Message-ID: <15156@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 20:11:19 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Organization: Purdue Univserity Computer Science Department Lines: 21 In article frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes: Gee, I always thought that programmers *are* users. I think you missed Michael's point completely. Just because a programmer is a user does not mean a user is a programmer. For instance when I use my Mac at home I have completely different needs than when I program my Sparc in my office. I don't really need (or want) the overhead of a preemptive scheduler on my Mac but I wouldn't be without it on my Sparc. Not because the Sparc is so much faster, but because of the nature of the work I do on the machine. It doesn't have to be that way. Sure it doesn't. But so far I have not seen a computer that is both really easy to use and really easy to program (I assume from complaints that the Mac is hard to program). The NeXT's I have worked on come closer than most, but I still don't find them as easy to use as my Mac. -- Kevin Kuehl krk@cs.purdue.edu