Correction - earlier I wrote:
The choice of tying the ticks to retrace was perhaps a necessity in early Mac OS systems, relying as they did on preemptive multitasking.
That should of course read:
The choice of tying the ticks to retrace was perhaps a necessity in early Mac OS systems, relying as they did on cooperative multitasking.
The switch from cooperative multitasking to modern preemptive multitasking was one of the many welcome advancements NeXT's Unix kernel brought to the Mac world.
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