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Article #43112Re: Apple System 7.0
From: Alexis Rosen
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 07:05
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 07:05
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In article <9344@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU
(Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>The mac isn't fast enough for me to care whether multitasking is
>preemptive or not.
That's not too clever. A Mac running A/UX 1.1 looks pretty competitive with
a Sun 3/60. Don't tell me it would look just as good with non-preemptive
multitasking (even if the concept weren't ridiculous in a Unix context...).
In fact, for all the non-optimal hardware design, the Mac isn't particularly
slow. It's just that CPU gets used in a markedly different way than on most
other machines. Which is not to say that I wouldn't prefer preemptive multi-
tasking myself.
Waiting for 8.0 :-)
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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0 Message-ID: <2097@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 27 May 89 07:05:18 GMT References: <17183@usc.edu> <4679@okstate.UUCP> <1925@internal.Apple.COM> <61086@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <9344@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Organization: City College of New York Lines: 19