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Article #1214Re: Apple? - interface quirks & software matters
From: Mike Edulla
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:54
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:54
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Jeff Halverson (halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : >: What I mean is that many people (mostly Mac fanatics) live in an illusion where : >: they believe multitasking is NOT essential for future evolution. : > : > UNIX fanatics always lived in an illusion where multitasking is essential. : >But while DOS and MacOS and Windows have been selling alot, companies supporting : >VMS and UNIX and Amiga had severe problems. : > : This is not the fault of inclusion of Multitasking. I also think it is unfair to say : the Mac fanatics live in an illusion that Multitasking is not essential. I bet : almost everyone would like multitasking if it were offered! (Yes, Mac users would : also like it, honest.) Its just a sad fact that there _IS_ multitasking in UNIX, : and there _IS NOT_ multitasking in MacOS, and people are so adamant that they have : comprimised any sense of objectivity. the mac os (system 7, whatever its called) supports cooperative multitasking (which isnt too stable, because 1 app can crash the machine)....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mustang.via.net!localhost!medulla From: medulla@phoenix.org (Mike Edulla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Apple? - interface quirks & software matters Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 18 Aug 1995 04:54:23 GMT Organization: Node Phoenix Message-ID: <4116dv$qmu@mustang.via.net> References: <DCywsM.2H5@inesc.pt> <40lfch$lfn@eken.hv.se> <DDFuwI.LHu@inesc.pt> <DDH2nv.2y3@news.cis.umn.edu> Reply-To: medulla@infosoc.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.128.20.71 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]