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Broke my computer!?!?
Authored by: babbage on May 10, '01 12:14:45PM

Hey, OS X is supposed to be modern, right? Protected memory, multitasking, threaded, etc.
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask this system to do more than one thing at a time. Hell,
run a "ps aux" at any given time and you're going to have at least a couple dozen processes
running anyway, including various daemons, the windowing system, the kernel, etc. Maybe it
is still bad to do more than one major process at a time, but I thought & still think that a lot of
the reason for moving to a Unix basis in the first place was that it allows you to do this
sort of thing. This is how I (& thousands of others, I think) use *nix boxes all the time, and
I *like* that OSX gives me the same power. It's a waste of a perfectly good computer to have
to sit & stare at it while it's running some long process -- why not do something else in the
foreground while it's doing some maintainence work in the background? Am I wrong to
think that OSX has finally caught up to the 1970s with this sort of capability?



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Broke my computer!?!?
Authored by: vgz on May 10, '01 01:46:13PM

I was listening to iTunes, surfing in OmniWeb, checking my mail, running the dnetc client in a terminal and converting a divx file to 3ivx under classic. All of this while running software update and installing the update. I have had no problems with my system.



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