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Article #26412Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbo
From: ladd
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 02:44
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 02:44
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>I think one point you are both missing out on is that preemptive multitasking >requires hardware support not available on a 68000. It is not compatibility >that stops us from implementing preemption, although it does pose some hairy >problems, but the requirement that we can run on a MacPlus and SE. It may be >that preemptive multitasking is preferable to cooperative multitasking -- this >is the real argument here, at least the really interesting one -- but it isn't >possible on a MacPlus. We are investigating preemption on the MacII. >..... >-Phil Goldman >Apple Computer What a shame. The 68000 could have been a good UNIX processor :-). Dave ladd@a.cs.uiuc.edu uiucdcs!ladd
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!ladd From: ladd@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbo Message-ID: <76000151@uiucdcsp> Date: 16 Mar 88 02:44:00 GMT References: <7670@apple.Apple.Com> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:apple.Apple.Com:7670:uiucdcsp:76000151:000:692 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!ladd Mar 15 20:44:00 1988