moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (05/14/89)
In article <7266@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: >Oh well, I thought I was going to have to wait for 8.0 for [memory >protection] anyway.... As did I... but just to tie things down, does Apple's plans for their 8.0 multi-tasking system include memory protection? [How's that for pushy? They announce details about 7.0, and I start hammering on 8.0...] "My advice to you is that you start drinking heavily." --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (05/15/89)
In article <8260@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >As did I... but just to tie things down, does Apple's plans for their 8.0 >multi-tasking system include memory protection? At the developer's conference this last week, there was a presentation on the future of the Mac OS. Though, there was no direct mention of the plans for 8.0, they did say the following is coming: True pre-emptive multi-tasking. Protected memory. Improved QuickDraw engine, including graphical hardware support. More international support. A new scripting language, called AppleScript, probably based on HyperTalk. Apple is moving very cautiously, as these changes will probably break many existing programs today, which are not 32 bit clean, which write directly to devices, which use supervisory mode instructions in the 680x0 instruction set, or which doddle in the System heap or other applications' heap. System 7.0 is an intermediate step, giving developers the opportunity to correct these problems. Edward Moy Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix Workstation Support Services Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy