On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:55:47 +0200, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden> wrote:
> You should probably review the OS 9 history. OS 9 was faster for sure,
> but it does not even got a preemptive scheduler.
The MP APIs were introduced in Mac OS 8.6.
> Every minor error in third party applications crash the whole system.
While not necessarily true I get your meaning; almost any 3rd party app
COULD crash the whole system.
> It's was PowerPC only.
Really? WoW! How did that 68K code run on my machine?!?
> It was absolutely not design to be multi-user friendly.
If the (vast) majority of our machines run single-user is this relevant?
> It's the result of many years of failure to write a reliable Operating System.
Then we must be experts! ;-)
> Sometime you have to accept evidence and learn from the past, and
> that's what Apple did, and it did well.
/blush...
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Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientist
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)
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