Re: Mac Multitasking?

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From: bryce
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59

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In article <20164@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> typed:
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) [With virtual memory] The interactive job must be retrieved from
) the paging disk, and the user has to wait for that disk
) before his clicks are responded to. On a Sun 3/50 running X and Unix,
) [clicking] on a different
) window can mean a pause of as much as 3 or 4 seconds before the new
) window is ready to listen to key-strokes (Until it is ready, X will
) send the keystrokes to the old active window.) 

Intuition (The Amiga User Interface) is structured such that switch would
be instant, if the program can't yet respond the events will be queued
for it.
Not a problem for either of the systems in this discussion.

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