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On 3 February 2016 at 13:07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
> In article <CAPFCoitX2OtQ0XpVi7WwzwS0KaRbh5VGYhbUChgOvGMWr+=EpQ at mail.gmail.com>,
>     John Hudak <jjhudak at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As an addendum to my own post, in comparison to Sun, Apple had used the
>> 680xx cpus but, in comparison, they were making 'toys'... [...]
>
> It also had cooperative multi-tasking.  MacOS didn't get true
> pre-emptive multi-tasking until OS X, IIRC.

>From what I remember, the early 68k-based Macs were also hobbled in
the sense that Jobs demanded that the CPU do everything.  (I heard
that he wanted to keep the chip-count down and was fanatical about
simplicity.)  As such, peripheral chips were not introduced until he
left.

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