Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Lawson English
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:50

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Kevin Brown (kcbrown@starfruit.csd.sgi.com) wrote:
: In article <40nsoq$dd6@nnrp1.primenet.com>,
: Lawson English <english@primenet.com> wrote:
: >Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
: >: What a bizarre argument.  I have to be able to program a multitasking
: >: OS to not recognize a poor one?
: >
: >So, shoehorn in multitasking on top of a single-tasking OS without 
: >breaking previous applications in the process and without requiring a 
: >complete rewrite of the entire ToolBox and OS while you are at it.

: *Exactly* why preemptive multitasking should have been accounted for
: in the initial design of the MacOS.

And around and around we go...


Let's design a pre-emptive multi-tasking GUI with completely re-entrant 
ToolBox, OS and GUI, in a machine with 128K of RAM, etc.


I'd *love* to see you do it...

Uh-huh. Right. Shore.


What was the default stack size on the original 128K Mac and why? (to 
give a hint to the apparently clueless)


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Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
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