OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Nov 19 09:42:36 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]

> however. I tried to
> initialize a diskette, and had to wait about 5 minutes after
> the process ended
> before it would let me do anything else, though it did
> eventually let me back at
> it.

That's pretty normal. It will take it a while to flush buffers and wake
back up -- rather, that's what I assume it's doing... :)

> Funny thing, though, is that I remember people claiming that
> MAC OS was
> multitasking. Windows allows me to play a game or whatever
> when I start off on
> a time-consuming task. This guy doesn't seem to want to do
> that. I had to try
> it on the second machine just to verify that the thing was
> not just bum
> hardware. It worked the same on the second box as well.

This gets really tangled right about now. What's your deffinition of
multitasking? Is the hardware capable of it? Yes. The software? Well,
It's co-operative. If you'd asked microsoft about their definition before
Abomination '95, they'd have told you that co-operative multitasking is
still multitasking too...

I have yet to figure out why they couldn't have done the disk reads/writes
in the background while you do some other things. I believe it's likely to
be a "left-over" from early days.

Funny thing is that if you can find a file-manager or the like that will
format disks/copy files, it's pretty likely that you can work around this
particular problem.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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