22 Oct
2018
22 Oct
'18
3:15 p.m.
At 04:40 PM 10/22/2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
As for multitasking, even Windows 10 can easily get
bogged down where the
GUI becomes essentially unresponsive to user actions. MS has never grasped
that it should never be possible to wind up in a situation where the user
is stuck watching a rainbow-colored wheel spin, while some set of tasks
consumes pretty much every clock cycle on every core, and the user can't
even shift context away from whatever is hogging the system.
There are lots of reasons why that can happen in any OS with a GUI
You've discovered some computer that doesn't ever crash?
The Woz was then challenged about Commodore 64 sales
far exceeding those of
Apple ][ and //e models, and he replied, "At Apple, we were always in it
for the long haul. What has Commodore sold lately?" Commodore, of course,
had long since gone bankrupt.
CBM didn't do that until 1994, right?
- John