Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDED
To   : Dirk Cap
From : Scott Little
Date : Thu Sep 07 2000 02:34 pm

 [ 18 Aug 00 18:06, Dirk Cap wrote to Scott Little ]

 DC>  I don't believe the MacOS has foundations from Unix.

Trust me, it doesn't :)

 DC>  I believe they give up preemptive multitasking after
 DC>  version 7 and uses true multitasking from version 8.

No non-X version of MacOS has preemptive multitasking for applications. Perhaps 
newer version behave like Win9x/NT when running Win16 apps (the Win16 apps are 
multitasked together co-op, while the OS is preemptive).

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

Probably, I wasn't there so I dunno :)

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