Article View: comp.sys.mac
Article #7737Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
From: John Nelson
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 00:39
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 00:39
29 lines
1528 bytes
1528 bytes
Hi all. Well thanks everybody for the responses concerning my question about parameter blocks and trying to find out whether a file is a folder or a file. I just wrote some functions to access the parameter blocks. Now another question has come up. We're intersted in writing a system that is composed of many processes all talking to each other and passing data back and forth. Even under MultiFinder I haven't seen a lot of this done so I conclude that it is an ineffecient and difficult to program sort of thing to do. Is multitasking difficult to do on the Mac? Is it effecient? Creating seperate processes would make the architecture of our system nice and clean, but if it's going to load the machine needlessly then we don't want it. Can anyone provide pointers to technical notes or other references concerning MultiFinde and MultiTasking (and XCMDS too I guess). Thanks! -- John T. Nelson UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn Advanced Decision Systems Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com 1500 Wilson Blvd #512; Arlington, VA 22209-2401 (703) 243-1611
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<9775@zodiac.ADS.COM>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!zodiac!jtnShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!zodiac!jtn From: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Message-ID: <9775@zodiac.ADS.COM> Date: 14 Nov 89 00:39:44 GMT Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-7300 Lines: 29