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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Nov 19 10:08:00 2001

So far it's not a problem, as the system has degenerated somewhat more, and I'm
probably going to hose off the hard disk and start over, if that's possible.

That way I'll know what's there, as well as knowing that what's there is
supposed to be there.

I'm quite sure I'll be unable to do much more with these until after the
upcoming holiday. However, I appreciate the continued advice, as I have to
digest it and figure out exactly what it means in terms of what I have to do in
order to make these boxes known and stabile.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?


> > -----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
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e '
> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> '
>
>
>
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