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Article #2900Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, answer->Ma
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 08:05
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 08:05
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In article <46100321@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Incidentally, I was using a Mac recently do some scanning (soon >to appear as a lovely posting in sci.astro (advertisement)). It >was running multifinder. The watch icon kept appearing and >there was no way to stop it except the power switch. This is beacause the scanner is a SCSI device, and the Mac has no way of handling asynchronous SCSI (Because of the plusses... Do we HAVE to drag them along for eternal time ? But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, VM in Sys 7 ! Soon to arrive (around Sys 9 or so :-) : Protected Memory) I once saw a "TRUE MULTITASKING" UNIX system freeze while the SCSI tape streamer streamed. You can always use nice -20 (if you are root) etc. There are many ways to lock up a "true" multitasking system. Try using sockets (play "hunt" for instance) and send lots of small data. Quick. Your system manager's gonna hate you (and have to reboot the machine) :-( Happy hacking anyway, sez' h+@nada.kth.se -- Loop, Endless: (n) Also called Dynamic Halt. See Endless Loop.
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