At 5:05 PM -0700 5/6/98, John H.Stewart wrote:
>Michael A. Stone wrote:
>> is there some sort of myth in the PC world that the Mac OS is still a
>> single-tasking operating system? for the record, it's not.. we've had
>> cooperative multitasking since System 6.0.8 back around, oh, '90.
> IMHO, it is a matter symantics. Neither OS is a true threaded
>multi-tasking OS like the various variants of UNIX.
>
> Personally, I don't consider MacOS a "true" cooperative multitasking
>OS. Task Switching, yes. NT does have the advantage in that it is a
>cooperative multitasking OS with the protected memory feature. Meaning,
>one app crash will not lock the complete OS. In theory, this is
>correct. In actual application, my NT workstation crashes just as much
>or more as my Mac. Of course, I do spend more time sitting in front of
>the NT than my Mac. Sometimes the "protected memory" feature limits
>the action to restarting the crashed app. Frequently, the entire system
>needs to be restarted. At that point, I consider it 45 minutes fo
>wasted time inorder to restore everything to the point of crash. With
>my Mac, it is usually less than a minute to return to point of crash.
Curious -- anyone know the market share of NTs being used as PCs (not
servers) compared to Mac market share???
at the aforementioned Cold Fusion demo today -- one of the laptops had NT
-- the other had Win95, and the person doing the demo APOLOGIZED!
Kathy
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