> Right. According to "Inside Macintosh: Memory", the feature was > there in System 6 if you ran MultiFinder, but the handles were not > tracked at all. In System 7.0 it was made a true system service.
This is good. I have Inside Mac Volumes I, II, III, and IV. None that are specific to managers. Guess I got a lotta books to buy again :-) Better get a job soon :-) Real "classics". I keep telling myself that someday they will be worth more than I paid for them. I still know how the pre-HFS API's worked (that is 400k MFS, not HFS+) :-) > Same here. It's always bugged me that the so-called "standard > operating system features" listed in my college OS Design text books > in 1980 STILL don't exist on our desktops! The only OS that included > them all, AFAIK, was VAX/VMS - aka OpenVMS. The OS Design books > joked about the way Unix did things... and today Unix, with few > improvments, is the norm. It's as if the System Architects have gone > into 20 years of hibernation... :\ In my experience, its more like they got tired of being beat over the head for wanting to do things with a more long term maintainability, scalability, etc. in mind. One of the bad side affects of capitalism is that the best doesn't always win (the classic VHS/Beta wars is the most famous example of course). An off topic digression that would never end... --> Russ -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
