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#IBM & Apple Bed Partners

    17-Jul-91 05:01:54
Sb: #IBM & Apple Bed Partners
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Timothy Shaw 70046,10
Tim, Ah, but just to be be obnoxious <grin>, what happens on an Amiga if that test program… main() { while (1); } ..starts out as the highest priority process? Reboot time? Anyway, it's been pointed out many times that Apple would love to switch to a preemptive system, but back-compatability is the uhhh, higher priority right now 🙂 In a similar manner, Commodore would probably love to add memory protection to the Amiga, but cannot because it would break an awful lot of current programs. Everyone gets locked in somewhere. cheers – kev