nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (02/07/90)
In article <142@farcomp.UUCP>, murat@farcomp (Murat Konar) writes: >I like the way the Mac feels and couldn't care less about being able to >format a disk while calculating Pi to 73000 decimal palces. Those of >you (programmer types) who can't tell a pointer from a handle should >just stay over there where you are. Hi Murat, I wanted to post a longer reply to this, but unfortunately, I was running MOTU's Performer on my (non memory-protected) Macintosh and it crapped out, brought the machine down, and spat on it's copy protection, so I've lost one level of hard disk installation, so I am too busy writing to MOTU to complain. I don't mind not having preemptive multitasking (for the reasons you mention), but I'd really rather like (i) memory protection, and (ii) some way to stop programs when I want to, not when *they* want to. >There, I feel better. Ich auch. >Murat N. Konar Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...als das Kind, Kind war...