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From: "PearsonPete"@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Timesharing on the Mac.
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 11:39:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 11:39:00 1984
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I don't know a lot about the Mac, aside from these facts: (1) Apples design
philosophy is, "If you can replace one chip with 2 man-years of convoluted
software, do it!"; and (2) the Mac's disk controller, designed under that
philosophy, requires that interrupts be off during disk I/O. Given that much
information, and the suspicion that philosophy (1) has resulted in other
abominations like (2) that I haven't heard about yet, I sure wouldn't like
to try to implement a timesharing system on that machine!