Microsoft-Paul Allen

[John Foust]

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