At 04:40 PM 10/22/2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote: >As for multitasking, even Windows 10 can easily get bogged down where the >GUI becomes essentially unresponsive to user actions. MS has never grasped >that it should never be possible to wind up in a situation where the user >is stuck watching a rainbow-colored wheel spin, while some set of tasks >consumes pretty much every clock cycle on every core, and the user can't >even shift context away from whatever is hogging the system.
There are lots of reasons why that can happen in any OS with a GUI You've discovered some computer that doesn't ever crash? >The Woz was then challenged about Commodore 64 sales far exceeding those of >Apple ][ and //e models, and he replied, "At Apple, we were always in it >for the long haul. What has Commodore sold lately?" Commodore, of course, >had long since gone bankrupt. CBM didn't do that until 1994, right? - John