Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <2097@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 07:05:18 GMT
References: <17183@usc.edu> <4679@okstate.UUCP> <1925@internal.Apple.COM> <61086@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <9344@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <9344@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU
(Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>The mac isn't fast enough for me to care whether multitasking is
>preemptive or not.

That's not too clever. A Mac running A/UX 1.1 looks pretty competitive with
a Sun 3/60. Don't tell me it would look just as good with non-preemptive
multitasking (even if the concept weren't ridiculous in a Unix context...).

In fact, for all the non-optimal hardware design, the Mac isn't particularly
slow. It's just that CPU gets used in a markedly different way than on most
other machines. Which is not to say that I wouldn't prefer preemptive multi-
tasking myself.

Waiting for 8.0 :-)
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Alexis Rosen
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