Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDED
To   : Dirk Cap
From : David Bowerman
Date : Wed Sep 06 2000 02:07 pm

Dirk Cap wrote in a message to Scott Little:

 DC>  I don't believe the MacOS has foundations from Unix.
 DC>  I believe they give up preemptive multitasking after
 DC>  version 7 and uses true multitasking from version 8.

Preemptive multitasking is true multitasking -- the OS decides what time slices 
an app gets.  Cooperative multitasking is what Windows and MacOS used to use 
where the apps controlled when they returned control to the OS.

 DC>  In my opinion Unix uses true multitasking from the
 DC>  moment it was released.

As in preemptive.  Yes.

Regards,
       David

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