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nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

>In article <9601272105.AA17852@dxmint.cern.ch>, Dan Pop
><danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>
>> Is it?  Pray tell, how is MacOS multitasking the following "application":
>
>> main() { for(;;); }
>
>Well, I don't particularly consider this a useful application.  Is this
>what PMT people do with their machines all day?

Who claimed this is a useful application?  However, I used such an 
"application" more than once, to test the behaviour of other applications
in the presence of a cpu-bound process.

>> Yes, my example serves no useful purpose, but every experienced Mac user 
>> has seen real applications freezing the Mac.
>
>Of course, since interrupts are still working, every experienced Mac user
>(and even the unexperienced ones too) can kill it off just like you would
>on a PMT machine.  Sorry, but the freezes aren't caused by infinite
>loops.  Sure, it's theoretically possible for an infinite loop to take
>control of your machine, but in practice, it just doesn't happen.

I wasn't talking about permanent freezes, only about applications that
freeze the Mac while they're doing all or part of their job, and the
so called "multitasking" is not working any longer.  Dunno about other
people, but I find them particularly frustrating.

Dan
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