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>From:    "David B. Gustavson" <dbg@SUNRISE.SCU.EDU>
>Subject: Simula for Mac uncooperative
>
>I've been using MacSimula 4.11 on the Macintosh, and am extremely
>impressed with its quality. Every bug I've found has turned out to be
>mine, not a compiler problem!
>
>But it has one big deficiency: once my simulation starts running, it
>keep control of the entire machine. No cycles are freed for updating
>the clock display, picking up characters from the network, etc. It
>would be sooo much nicer if it could run in the background like a
>normal cooperative MacCitizen, even though that would of course be
>much slower, because then I could use my Mac for some of the other
>things I need to do, like email.

The problem lies not with the Simula compiler, but with the deficient
MAC OS that does not preemptively multitask.  If that gets fixed, your
problem gets fixed.... don't hold your breath....

M.Searcy