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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multitasking and interactivity issu (sense)
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Date: 26 Feb 90 22:21:46 GMT
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In article <18243@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU 
(Joseph M. Piazza) writes:

> flies!), so from experience I know that it multitasked.  I know it had 
some
> hardware protection though I wasn't sure of the extent of its nature.

The Lisa had a custom MMU which provide protection between processes.

>         Did the original Lisa do this also? 

Yes.  The main difference between the original Lisa and the Lisa 2 was the 
floppy disk drives.


Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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