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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Preemption (Re: A call for "3D look")
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Date: 7 Feb 90 20:38:39 GMT
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In article <3860@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@hub.UUCP (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier]) writes...
 
>From article <2054@castle.ed.ac.uk>, by nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell):
>> ...I'd really rather like... some way to stop programs when I want to,
>> not when *they* want to.
> 
>Install your programmer's switch, install Macsbug (the debugger, not the
>screen saver), punch the far button, and type 'es<return>'. Sort of a
>round-a-bout way of doing things, but it works. Most of the time.

True, but Nicks point is, I think, that such things should be built into the
Mac interface.  I agree with him that this, along with protected memory, are
VERY important, much more so than preemptive MultiTasking.

Robert

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