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Article #17670Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee!
From: Gary Samad
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1987 22:31
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1987 22:31
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I just came back from MacExpo here in Boston and saw their new "Multifinder" "first generation multitasking" system. They really have no right to call this thing multi-tasking. It gives you print-spooling (even the lowly PeeCee has print-spooling) and the ability to have several programs open at once (if they're compatible with Multifinder) but they do NOT run at the same time unless the program makes "give-up-the-CPU calls" frequently! That's right, no time slicing whatsoever. This is really a joke! There are no provisions whatsoever for process spawning, inter-task communication, or, it appears, even dynamic memory allocation (it appeared that each program was allocated a fixed ammount of memory, out of which it could allocate what it needed). I wonder if Apple is really going to pull the wool over its user's eyes by advertising "The new Mac multitasking operating system." Gary
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!gary From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Mac Multitasking? Hee-hee! Message-ID: <6565@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 18:31:22 EDT Article-I.D.: eddie.6565 Posted: Thu Aug 13 18:31:22 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 10:36:37 EDT Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16