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From: mackay@iisat.UUCP (Daniel MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Summary: Lisa O/S
Message-ID: <492@iisat.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 13:40:59 GMT
References: <17148@usc.edu> <8905110108.AA02057@snoopy.UMD.EDU>
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In article <8905110108.AA02057@snoopy.UMD.EDU>, res12@snoopy.UMD.EDU (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> 
> In article <17148@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> >
> > [stuff about System 7.0 multitasking]
> >
> >Interesting. I have been using a system with such features, an Amiga,  since 
> >1985.
>
> Interesting. I have been using such a system since 1984--
> 	 A Lisa 2/10 running Lisa Office System.

Yeah, this always makes me laugh.  Imagine, if you will, the day when
the Mac O/S has features like...

 - pipes, timers, multitasking.
 - a soft power switch that suspends all Multifinder processes and brings them
   all back up when you power back up the next day, exactly as you left 
   them.
 - Parameter RAM backed up onto harddisk on shutdown, and CRC checked
   on startup, restored from harddisk if it's damaged.
 - elegant recovery from system errors.
 - a selftest that 
   - repairs damage to files (caused, say, by a power failure during a 
     write) automatically on powerup.
   - finds damaged applications and asks for their replacement.
   - finds damaged chunks of the O/S and asks for the proper system floppy 
     disks so it can repair itself.
 - hard-disk-icon drag to floppy that automatically segments things,
   and reconstructs them in the other direction. 
 - &c. &c.

Naaah.  Apple could never build such an advanced system.  :-)  SIX YEARS
AGO, PEOPLE!  SIX YEARS!  It's so hard to see the Mac O/S as anything but
a pathetically emasculated Lisa O/S.  Aah well, someday, it will catch up.
-dan
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