On 7 Jun 2003 at 10:01, Philip M. Aker wrote: > Multitasking as an issue is only important to Windows developers > because DOS (and I think Windows before W95) never had anything like > the (old) MacOS event loop concept in the first place.
Eh? DOS was single-tasking, so is not a relevant comparison to any version of Mac OS. Win3.x was used cooperative multi-tasking, just like Mac OS, and used a messaging queue, as any multi-tasking operating environment must. Win95 introduced a combination of cooperative multi-tasking and preemptive multi-tasking, depending on whether the software was fully 32-bit or depended on 16-bit components. To claim that the "event loop" was an advantage that made multi- tasking unnecessary is rather ridiculous. Microsoft got it right long before Apple, by introducing decent multi-tasking by Windows 3.0 (I never used early versions, but I believe multi-tasking was there in somoe form from the beginning; virtual memory management came in Windows 3.11, based on the work done in Windows for Workgroups 3.1). It reminds me of all the WordPerfect users who claim that REVEAL CODES is such a great tool, when in reality it's just a kludge to help you get around all the problems inherent in a sequential file format. "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
