🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9601272105.AA17852@dxmint.cern.ch>, Dan Pop
<danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

>     This is precisely the point.  MacOS doesn't have this ability, unless the
>     applications are willing to cooperate.  The multitasking is built into the
>     applications, not into MacOS.

Baloney. This was true for System 4.2. It is not true now. If the system
doesn't support multitasking, it doesn't matter how you write your apps.

>     
>     Who invented cooperative "multitasking"?

I don't know and I really don't care.


>     
>     Is it?  Pray tell, how is MacOS multitasking the following "application":
>     
>     main() { for(;;); }
>     
>     An OS which cannot multitask it has no rights to claim to be multitasking,
>     for the simple reason that it isn't.

What a stupid example. You're saying that just because MacOS won't
multitask with a program which doesn't do anything and no one in their
right mind would write, that it's the operating system's problem?

OK, here's one for you:

Run the same program under WinNT, or UNIX, or whatever you want to run it
over. I'll run over your computer with a steamroller. It quits
multitasking. I guess your OS is no good.

-- 
Regards,       Joe Ragosta

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