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From: huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX and Mac applications on the Mac II
Message-ID: <649@apple.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 21:10:52 EST
Article-I.D.: apple.649
Posted: Tue Apr 21 21:10:52 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Apr-87 04:49:15 EST
References: <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu> <252@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham)
Distribution: world
Organization: Swim team, Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: UNIX, Mac II, multitasking, windows

In article <252@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer) writes:
>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.

But most are just processing null events, waiting for events that they really
want to handle.  If there was some way to only deal with "real" events and
let null event time be shared, well that would be cool....

Is anyone at Apple listening?

...Oh that's right, I'm at Apple, never mind.

Fred