🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DEJ81J.2JK@frobozz.sccsi.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> I'll certainly agree that preemptive multitasking isn't as much of an
> improvement over cooperative multitasking as protected memory is over
> unprotected memory, but it's nonetheless an improvement that has the
> potential to be rather significant.  PMT on a Mac would mean that my
> fiancee could have run her statistical analysis on her data and
> continued to work on her thesis at the same time, instead of waiting
> hours for the analysis to complete.

Re-read your paragraph. You admit that PMT isn't much of an improvement
over CMT. Then you state that your fiance can do her work with PMT but not
with CMT. Isn't that a tad inconsistent? In fact, there's no reason she
can't send her statistical analysis into the background and work on her
thesis with cooperative multitasking. 

> It's not like PMT is groundbreakingly new technology or anything.
> It's been around a long time.  There's no good excuse for any modern
> OS to use CMT over PMT.

If both work adequately, why not? Apple has had more important things to
work on. Now that they've gotten the PowerMac transition behind them,
they'll work on PMT. I just don't think it's that big of a deal that it
hasn't been done yet.

-- 
Regards, Joe Ragosta -- 100% Chemical and proud of it.
Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form,
in whole or in part. Copyright, Joseph Ragosta, 1995. License to distribute
this post is available to Microsoft for $1000. Posting without permission
constitutes an agreement to these terms. Please send notices of violation
to docjoe@interramp.com and Postmaster@microsoft.com