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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX and Mac applications on the Mac II
Message-ID: <252@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 12:38:53 EST
Article-I.D.: rocky.252
Posted: Sun Apr 19 12:38:53 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 02:51:22 EST
References: <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
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Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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Keywords: UNIX, Mac II, multitasking, windows

In article <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu> Henry Greenside writes:
>Does anyone out there know if Apple will be trying to allow Mac applications
>to run as tasks under UNIX? ...
>Especially nice would be the ability to run Finder/Juggler as a task under
>UNIX so that both modes are available at the same time. The Mac II would then
>be far more useful than a Sun workstation. 

But most Mac applications are use busy-waiting in their main event loops,
no? It might be possible to run them as tasks, but they will all 
be "cpu-hogs". It seems like most old applications will not do too well
under a multitasking Mac II Finder.

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu