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In article <41nnp2INNn8r@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
(Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:

> In article <edodge-2408951158270001@ip-pdx3-09.teleport.com>,
> Edward Dodge <edodge@teleport.com> wrote:
> 
> >I don't know where you are getting your Mac info,  but when Win 3.0 showed
> >up,  multifinder was already *years* old.  I remember quite clearly
> >because System 6 was the big thing then,  and DOS users were telling me
> >their sour-grapes line:  "Who needs to run two programs at the same time
> >anyway?"  Apparently *they* did.  Heh heh heh!
> 
> Right. And now Mac users are telling _their_ sour grapes line: "Who needs
> pre-emptive multitasking and virtual, protected address spaces?"
> 
> Hey, there still is an Apple II newsgroup for die-hard zealots of a bygone
> mini-era.
> -- 
> Finger c2a192@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca for PGP public key. Or contact
> one of the public key servers -- the key id is 0xD3C7995D.

the majority of users dont need preemptive multitasking... (mind you, id
certainly welcome and appreciate it...) but, the protected address space
is something id like to have today... copland is an excellent step in the
right direction... impressive actually... as for win95 being preemptively
multitasking, well... i think it is so poorly done it might not as well
have... the use of one non-32 bit program 'turns off' preemptive
multitasking... (and i believe semi-protected space also, but this is
conjecture...) win95 is a step in the right direction, but its still well
behind the macintosh, in useability, versaility, and compatibility... (i
suppose i should start using macos, rather than macintosh...)

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will simpson
wbs2@po.cwru.edu
case institute of technology
polymer engineering undergraduate

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