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Re: Mutitasking in Executor



>>>>> "George" == George Michel <merlin@midtown.net> writes:
In article <317598e6.3546675@news.midtown.net> merlin@midtown.net (George Michel) writes:


    George> Will Executor ever be able to multitask? Any form would be
    George> nice, like, being able to at least minimize a program or
    George> access the browser while in a program.

There are two ways to multitask: rely on the underlying OS to do it
for you (this usually gives you memory protection, too) or do it under
Executor.  On some platforms we already do some of the former.
Executor/NEXTSTEP does this best, with Executor/Linux coming in
second.  After we port to Win32 and OS/2 we'll beef up the cut and
paste and file sharing capabilities of Executor so that you'll be able
to do nice things on all those platforms.

We're not sure when we'll look into making Executor directly
multi-task.  We need to know what Apple's reaction to us is going to
be and see how far we can get with the tack above.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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