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Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 09:52:09 UTC 2005


Indeed. The BIG difference is memory protection. 

Oops. We don't have that in Squeak either. Did I just open another can of worms?

(luckily, no - we have 'typed memory'. It's harder to goof up there. I
know a bit about goofing up under MacOS, one bug in a driver I wrote
cost me 2 weeks to track down; mostly because of the lack of memory
protection which caused the machine to freeze)

On 4/15/05, mds <reifiedmind at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Not to dispute your central point, I just wanted to note that a
> comparison of Mac OS X and Mac OS <= 9 can't be usefully phrased in
> terms of preemptive multitasking. While stability may well have been
> improved with the release of OS X, we're discussing two separate
> architectures here; this is not simply a case of the addition of
> preemption to an existing code-base.
>



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