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From: robw@dartvax.UUCP (Robert H. Wills)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Resume
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 15:29:36 EDT
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Further to the question of resumption:
Why does the mac run entirely in supervisor mode? Surely the state of
the OS could be better  preserved if applications ran in 68000 user mode..
Of course, to do it properly, you need memory management, as in the Lisa
or later  680x0 chips.

Rob Wills
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College                       (robw@dartmouth)