Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)]

In article <bazyar.724391662@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

>dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
>>[...] (Macintosh system software is not generally reentrant, either).
>
>And that's too bad, because it wouldn't have been much more difficult
>to do it the right way.  Stopping all tasks while in a modal dialog
>is one example where the cooperative philosophy breaks down when
>applied on top of a non-multitasking system (as MultiFinder was).

Let me amend my statement a little...while it's not *generally* reentrant,
Macintosh System 7 (or 6+MultiFinder) is reentrant in carefully controlled
ways.

Activity actually does -not- stop behind a modal dialog.  True, the user
is not allowed to bring a different application to the front before
dismissing the dialog, but the other apps continue to get background
time.
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