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kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Jason Fair) writes:

>Maybe you're interested in running infinite loop programs like that on
>your machine, but I can't think of a single instance where I've needed
>to.  I'm interested in using software that actually has a point.

There is plenty of software that has a point, yet it's very similar to the
infinite loop program, except that: 1) it does some computation inside
the loop and 2) it eventually exits the loop.  Such programs can run for
hours, days, weeks or months before exiting the loop.  During this time,
the Mac is not available to any other applications.

A scientist or engineer who wants to run his programs, developed on other
systems, on his Mac, via a simple compilation (they were written in
portable C, after all) is in the situation of not being able to use the Mac
for any other purposes.  Or to learn the misteries of MacOS, on which he
doesn't have any interest, because he's not a Mac programmer, he's only a
Mac user.

Dan
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