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Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: In article <19960128.117F4B8.13A52@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don
: Schmelling) wrote:
: 
: > 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.
: 
: What issue?  Someone comes up with a brain-dead example that exploits a
: weakness of a system.  Big deal.  The question that is important to me,
: and most others, is how often does that situation come up in Real Life? 
: The infinite loop above happens about as often as the fork() bomb does on
: Unix.  Theoretically possible; in reality, rarely.

The issue is that a loop like the one above will defeat the
"multitasking" abilities of a cooperative multitasking os.
: 
: This example give me absolutely no insight into comparing the two systems,
: as it isn't something that people tend to buy computers for.

The insight it gives into comparing the two systems is that
it will take up all of the cpu on a cooperative multitasking system
while a PMT system will just run it as a task that does next
to nothing.

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