Re: Apple?

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:39

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In article <3vmlsa$eug@martha.utk.edu>, mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matthew
Kennel) wrote:

> Robert Cassidy (rmcassid@uci.edu) wrote:

> : But compared to no scheduler, no switch routine, and no tables, that's a
> : lot of space.
> 
> It's understandable it wasn't there in System 1, but it should have
> been at least thought about and there should have been a conceptual
> design for how to do it in the future.  Multitasking should have been
> there with System 4 and the SE, and memory protection by the first or second
> iteration of the '020 (or was it '030) that had VM hardware.

I agree that was the right time to do it - when the Mac II shipped. Of
course, its hard to say how things looked from Apple's perspective.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine

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From: rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy)
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Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:39:21 -0700
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