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Article #38376Re: New Mac Rumours
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 21:12
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 21:12
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> Get Real. They are written in Assembly language right now. NOBODY gets a
> speed up going to a higher level language. You are quoting speeds for the
> new system which reqires NEW applications written in object-oriented languages.
No they aren't. Or at least not 100% of them. Large parts of the Finder
and system are written in an HLL, though some parts are written in assembly.
On another note, at the very least, apple will have to rewrite the toolbox
in order to make it reentrant if they wish to develop true preemptive
multitasking.
Pierce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!elroy!cit-vax!wetter From: wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours Message-ID: <9768@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 25 Feb 89 21:12:31 GMT References: <419cc91f.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 16