Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Christopher C. Wood
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:44

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In article <4glem9$li5@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Lawson English <english@primenet.com> writes:

|> Nope to both (sorta). *ALL* applications that have a (an?) human
|> interface must sit in the "BLue Box" and effectively, they
|> cooperatively multitaslk WITH EACH OTHER (but see below about what
|> "effectively" means).

A Copland-savvy application spawns a separate process for the
application's real work, leaving _only_ the user-interface portion
running in the Blue Box.  So the application processing
(e.g. background download in an FTP or web application, rendering,
compression or decompression) is fully preemptive.

|> There is no "protected memory" with Blue Box tasks, so if one goes
|> down, they all may. 

A process spawned by a blue box task doesn't go down.  And it can
restart its UI portion.  Copland applications survive a blue box crash
or lockup.  Copland applications have memory protection and preemptive
multitasking. 

Chris
-- 
Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com

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From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:44:57 GMT
Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH
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