[net.micro] Timesharing on the Mac.

"PearsonPete"@LLL-MFE.ARPA (03/29/84)

I don't know a lot about the Mac, aside from these facts: (1) Apples design
philosophy is, "If you can replace one chip with 2 man-years of convoluted
software, do it!"; and (2) the Mac's disk controller, designed under that
philosophy, requires that interrupts be off during disk I/O. Given that much
information, and the suspicion that philosophy (1) has resulted in other
abominations like (2) that I haven't heard about yet, I sure wouldn't like
to try to implement a timesharing system on that machine!

RIZZI@USC-ISIB.ARPA (03/31/84)

From:  Bill Rizzi <RIZZI@USC-ISIB.ARPA>



	But the disk handler will poll the serial port, so you might not
lose quite as badly, just more obscurely.

                Bill (RIZZI@ISIB)

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