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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
Message-ID: <6702@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:58:05 GMT
References: <1988Dec16.191309.21623@cs.rochester.edu> <326@internal.Apple.COM> <337@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <337@internal.Apple.COM> shebs@Apple.COM (Stanley Todd Shebs) writes:
>Anyway, there are quite a few people at Apple that do believe pre-emptive
>multitasking is important, that applications should be simpler to write,
>that memory protection is essential, and that the OS should support true
>distributed applications.  The key question is how to turn all of these
>(well-known) ideas into new products that retain the advantages of the Mac. 

  Thankyou!!!  I'm looking forward to Apple's implementations of MT & VM.
Thankyou for your posting and letting us know that Apple is progressing 
forward and some people at Apple believe they can do better than the current
implementation, not saying the current implementation is bad, its just that
you can always do better ;-)
-- 
David M. O'Rourke                                  dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu

"If it doesn't do Windows, then it's not a computer!!!"
Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!