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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Preemption (Re: A call for "3D look")
Message-ID: <2893@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 8 Feb 90 19:42:42 GMT
References: <7432@tank.uchicago.edu> <497@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <142@farcomp.UUCP> <2054@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2054@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>In article <142@farcomp.UUCP>, murat@farcomp (Murat Konar) writes:

>   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

>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.

Yeah ! Hear ! Protected memory ! More ! More ! Yeah ! That's right !
If you're ever in ]lsten, I'll buy you a beer ! :-)

You _have_ a way to stop applications when _you_ want to - break into
macsBug, check the string at CurApName and if it's the one you want,
type 'ES' and be happy. Of course, this requires MacsBug and 200k of
extra system heap to spare...

h+

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