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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 02:11:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 02:11:45 1987
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in article <3632@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) says:
> Regardless why do amiga people care about MultiFinder?

Well see, it's simple. It's because MultiFinder looks so lame compared to the
Amiga Exec, which slices, dices, time-shares, and message-passes, with
complete dynamic memory allocation amongst tasks. And you can bet purty as ya
please that Apple is gonna advertise it as a REAL multi-tasking operating
system, thus pulling the wool over folk's eyes when it comes time to buy a
multi-tasking computer and they found they bought a lemon compared to the
competition. After all, co-processes giving up control to each other do NOT
equal a message-passing multi-tasking kernal... 

In other words, Apple is engaged in a campaign of deception, and those of us
lucky enough to have the real thing, get pretty peeved at their unethical
conduct in doing so... 

By the way, if you have never heard of what a multi-tasking message-passing
kernel is, go ask CMU about their MACH Unix-kernel replacement, or go read
Andrew Tannenbaum's new operating system book, where he presents the kernel of
Minix, his little Unix clone....

As for multi-tasking, how for this scenario: I talk to this Unix system with
my terminal. Meanwhile, in another window, me C compiler be churning away, and
in yet nother window, a text editor sits (a text editor, no teeny little desk
gadget dere), and finally, a shell window be open so I coul pull up the
directory to find the name of a file I want to upload in a few minutes...
meanwhile, whenever I hit a key, I'm sure not getting any delay -- if your
Unix system gives a delay, it is VERY badly tuned, or else SEVERELY overloaded
or with insufficient hardware.
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