Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: multitasking Message-ID: <1413@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 20:33:05 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1413 Posted: Mon Aug 6 20:33:05 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:09:24 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 26 From PATTERMANN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Mon Aug 6 17:32:29 1984 Two issues: 1) the mac could really use multitasking, and, 2) to do this, the mac needs at least 512K and probably a good fast hard disk too. In reverse order, the problem with upgrading to 512k is that it makes the bit about "uniform address space" sound a little silly- what I heard suggested, and what I hope apple will do, (any Apple folks listening???) is to offer the memory upgrade to everyone at a price such that anyone can afford it... or better still, make the upgrade available free to everyone, so there will really be a uniform address space among all macs. Now, the problem of multitasking. How should the process-switching be handled? Seems to me it would be nice if there was a list of process handles under the apple menu, with a checkmark alongside the current task. Select a process handle, and some sort of a process-handler menu could appear to allow you to modify process characteristics for the process you selected, or make it the current process, etc. Seems like a nice clean way of extending the finder to handle multitasking. Anyone know what the current thought at apple is about these subjects? Nick Caruso, Rael@Cmu-Cs-Spice