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From: ngg@bridge2.UUCP (Norman Goodger)
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Subject: Re: Rabid Defense of Multi-Tasking
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Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 20:36:57 EDT
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> This discussion has probably gone on too long already, but I
> just can't resist.
> Why did Apple create Desk Accessories?
> Why does Apple distribute the switcher?
> These are kludges to get around the lack of multi-tasking and let
> you use the mac for more than one thing at a time.
> In a multi-tasking system these would not exist because they would
> have no reason to exist.
> (DAs and the Switcher rely on the voluntary suspension of the running
> program.  Multi-tasking is the INVOLUNTARY suspension of the running
> program.  That is the whole difference, although it is no small thing;
> it is fundamental to the whole design of the os.)
> > Without an MMU, multi-tasking is dangerous.
> Multi-tasking would not increase (or decrease) the frequency of bombs.
> Apple was WRONG to not try to put multi-tasking on the Mac.
> 
> 				L. R. Custead
> 				Univ of Saskatchewan
> 				ihnp4!custead

Did anybody ever stop to consider that Apple *NEVER* considered to make
the Mac a multi-tasking Machine. back in "84" when the Mac first came out
no one ever thought of the Mac being a multi-tasking Machine, the Lisa
in a way was, but it was incredibly slow, you think that Mac was slow
try playing with a Lisa for a while, it will show you what slow is all
about. It seems to me that Jobs whole intention from the outset was to
create a simple and easy to use computer for all, and Apple has and is
taking it way beyond Jobs initial vision, which is great, the next Mac
whatever it may become, with a 68020 and probably the 68881 and possibly
an MMU will become the machine you have all been waiting for. So save
your pennies...its coming...

				Norm Goodger @ Bridge Comm.
				Sysop-MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862