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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Preemption (Re: A call for "3D look")
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:18:03 GMT
References: <7432@tank.uchicago.edu> <497@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <142@farcomp.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)

In article <142@farcomp.UUCP>, murat@farcomp (Murat Konar) writes:
>I like the way the Mac feels and couldn't care less about being able to 
>format a disk while calculating Pi to 73000 decimal palces.  Those of 
>you (programmer types) who can't tell a pointer from a handle should 
>just stay over there where you are.

Hi Murat,
   I wanted to post a longer reply to this, but unfortunately, I was
running MOTU's Performer on my (non memory-protected) Macintosh and it
crapped out, brought the machine down, and spat on it's copy
protection, so I've lost one level of hard disk installation, so I am
too busy writing to MOTU to complain.

I don't mind not having preemptive multitasking (for the reasons you
mention), but I'd really rather like (i) memory protection, and (ii)
some way to stop programs when I want to, not when *they* want to.

>There, I feel better.

Ich auch.

>Murat N. Konar	

		Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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