Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Scrutchins who wrote (13857)	5/20/1998 7:59:00 AM
From: soup	Respond to of 213182

Apple's Future History. via 32bitsonline >The legacy Macintosh was designed by some very young and brilliant programmers. They knew how to make things happen, but, to be honest about it, they didn't have enough experience to understand how to exploit the brand new 68000 CPU they were provided. As a result, the foundation of the MacOS is rather shaky. The Toolbox is not re-entrant, and this prevents multiple processes from accessing the Mac APIs simultaneously. While the 68K series CPU was fully capable of memory protection and pre-emptive multi-tasking (Hewlett-Packard sold a respectable Unix system using the 68020), the MacOS was not designed to exploit it. Even though Apple introduced some very nice OS and hardware innovations, the product as a whole is shackled by that initial design. That is why so many IT managers now sneer at the MacOS - and with good reason. WindowsNT, their new bride, is a more modern OS in its basic design. While Apple has tried to update the MacOS innards, it has been about as easy as teaching a pig to sing.< 32bitsonline.com Predates "They're Serious This Time" but likewise an excellent read. Hell, just bookmark the site! 32bitsonline.com soup