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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Mutitasking in Executor
- Date: 22 Apr 1996 23:16:58 -0600
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- >>>>> "George" == George Michel <merlin@midtown.net> writes:
- In article <317598e6.3546675@news.midtown.net> merlin@midtown.net (George Michel) writes:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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