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From: larryh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <5260@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 22:28:08 GMT
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Reply-To: larryh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Larry Hutchinson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <870@iex.UUCP> cramer@iex.UUCP (Bill Cramer) writes:
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>I've been amused at the whining in the MacRags over the issue of *real* 
>multitasking for the Mac ....
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>So what is it that everyone seems to want?  Beats the **** out of me.  What
>is it that everyone seems to need?  Well, I've been wrong before (twice 
>already this year :-), but IMHO, we need well written programs that 
>understand the concept of how MacOS works. ....

Well Bill, would you like to volunteer to go through the megabyte fortran
soucre code that I have and analyze it for timing and then put calls to
WaitNexEvent in just the right places?  It kinda needs to run in the
backgound since it takes hours to days to complete its task on
a VAX -- presumably the same on my SE/30 but I haven't tried it yet
since there is no preemtive multitasking on the Mac.  I sure as Hell
don't want to do the munging myself since (1) I didn't write the program, (2)
I don't understand the program and (3) I hate fortran.

But you get the Idea.  It is an incredible pain in the ass to take 'dusty
decks' and put WaitNextEvents in just the right places (and without slowing
the program down).  I *need* preemptive multitasking.

I do admit that it is not that big of a deal for more typical Mac programs.


Larry Hutchinson, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, MS 50-383, Beaverton, OR 97077
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