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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Preemption (Re: A call for "3D look")
Message-ID: <2129@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Feb 90 12:53:54 GMT
References: <7498@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Waldorf Micro-Wave Tracking/Sighting/Authentication Subcommittee
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In-reply-to: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu

In article <7498@tank.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd writes:
>In article <3860@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@hub.UUCP (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier])
>>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.

For me it works if I'm lucky. Thing is, without protected memory
you're *never* sure that something hasn't spat on something else
important.

>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.

My point entirely.

>Robert

	Nick.
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