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To: HerbVic who wrote (13698)	5/17/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Jonathan Bird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

We have a few programmers who follow this thread. Anyone care to settle this? I don't know all the technical terms. But whatever Win95 has as far as multi this or threaded that, the MacOS does not have. All you gotta do is use the thing for a while and you will notice the difference. With Win95 I can listen to a RealAudio feed and it will continue to play when I hold the mouse button down. I can launch applications and then immediately switch processes and do something else while the app(or large file) loads. I can format a floppy entirely in the background. Basically, no matter what you have going on, you can do anything else at the same time. This is the way WinNT works also. I am longing for this type of functionality on my Mac. It breaks my heart to know I will have to wait 2 more years for something Windows had in 95. And speaking of things Windows has that the Mac doesn't. Now that the Mac has contextual menus like Windows I hope they will also copy the two button mouse so they can be used properly. If you ask me it's about time the MacOS started shamelessly copying the best of windows since since they been copying from us for all these years. Jon Bird

To: HerbVic who wrote (13698)	5/17/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

but I think that both Windows 95 and Mac OS 8.1 have cooperative multitasking with the ability to multi-thread. We have a few programmers who follow this thread. Anyone care to settle this? Win95 has pre-emptive multitasking for all 32 bit apps. However, if you run a 16bit app (there are few of those left), then it uses cooperative multitasking. That is, if a 32 bit app dies, no sweat, if a 16 bit hangs, you're in trouble. John Bird: If you ask me it's about time the MacOS started shamelessly copying the best of windows since since they been copying from us for all these years. Indeed. Apple let Microsoft catch up to them by not releasing timely updates of MacOS. If you think about it, NT 5.0 and MacOS X are coming out at about the same time, with similar features...