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

But this does not answer the question does it?
How do you answer a question with another question?
This is called sidestepping the issue.
: 
: > 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.

Well, I hope even you would admit that a CMT os looses its multitasking
ability when running a program like the one above. ;)

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