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[Eugene]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:01:29PM CST, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 7:55 PM -0500 1/29/10, John Kiss wrote:
> >On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >
> >>So it isn't even like the .... (the name escapes me) feature
> >>prior to System 7 that allowed background processes?
> >
> >Multifinder?
> 
> No, that's not it.  Wikipedia to the rescue.  I was thinking of
> "Desk Accessories" (DA's).  Though I'm not sure how true
> "multitasking" is with regards to them, IIRC, prior to Mutltifinder
> it was more like task-switching.

Anything previous to Mac OS X did not have preemptive multitasking at
the core OS level.  It wasn't until latter half of yesteryear's OS that
it started to support cooperative multitasking, which still honestly
sucked (Desk Accessories, Switcher, MultiFinder, Thread Manager).


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Eugene
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