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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking?
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 19:18:56 EDT
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In article <3632@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
}Again dynamic memory allocation is impractical without an MMU unless you wish
}to have processes writing into each others memory (wouldn't it be lovely if
}every time a program in Unix crashed it brought down everyone else too?)

Well, I'm afraid that this is going to ba a problem with Multifinder anyway,
since several programs will be resident and, if one misbehaves, all might be
lost.  Unfortunately, this was oftwn a problem in the early days on the
Amiga (nowadays, commercial software tends to be much more robust and aware
of multitasking).

}FLAME ON
}   I notice in the message header that you are posting to both the amiga
}and mac newsgroups. Why? If you are a Mac user why are you bothering the 
}amiga owners with mac news? if you are an amiga user why are you posting 
}mac news since you probably don't know enough about the mac for your comments
}to be relevant anyways? Regardless why do amiga people care about MultiFinder?
}FLAME OFF

Well, I am an Amiga owner and developer and was actually at MacExpo because
I was interested in possibly porting my application to the Mac as well (ALL
Amiga owners aren't religious fanatics :-).  Also, I have been interested
in multitasking on micros for years now and am interested in what the
major manufacturers are doing in this direction.  In fact, the BEST software
buy of my life was DESQVIEW for the PeeCee which gave this singletasking
machine multitasking capabilities.  If this little company could do it
(while maintaining nearly complete backward DOS compatability and including
time slicing) I would have thought that Apple could do it.  I had truly
hoped that it had!

I also posted it to the Amiga group because many are probably interested 
to know that they still have the multitasking lead! :-)

	Gary