Microsoft-Paul Allen
John Foust
jfoust at threedee.com
Mon Oct 22 17:15:12 CDT 2018
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
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