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Mark Swearingen (mark@ephesus.com) wrote:
: Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:

: =>I'm saying is that, unlike Microsoft, older Macintoshes haven't been
: =>prematurely pushed into obsolesence.  Even today, with a whole new
: =>processor, a plus can still run current software.  Meanwhile, MS
: =>made you get new software when windows came out and now expects
: =>you to get new software to use windows 95.

: Wrong!  Windows 3.1 apps and DOS apps can run under Windows 95.  Who told you 
: otherwise?

: =>Solution to what problem?  It's like "true" multitasking.  People
: =>keep saying it's better because it solves the problems of premtive
: =>multitasking.  The funny think is that I'm just not having those
: =>problems to a significant extent.  It maybe that it's somewhat
: =>better, but it's clear that it's more of a religous belief.

: You obviously don't do very much with your computer.  Under Win 3.1 I 
: frequently run into situations where I can't Alt-Tab to another application 
: because the app I'm in won't release the CPU.  For example, when saving a 
: large file.  If the Mac doesn't have preemptive multitasking, then I would 
: imagine that such problems are frequent on that platform as well.

:                                                     --- Mark Swearingen / NYC
:                                                              mark@ephesus.com
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:     "The desire to rule is the mother of heresies."  (St. John Chrysostom)
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For most things, this is true.  However, for some Apps, like Sparkle (an 
MPEG player and converter), he takes use of the built in thread manager, 
and while saving you can do other things in other apps.

John Klancer
jk@mercury.superlink.net