Re: A lesson on why Windows dominates computing...

In article <Jp6dnexT7soWxGTfUSdV9g@xxxxxxx>,
Flint <agent1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Edwin wrote:
>
> > Because Bruce Horn conceived and implimented a way to manage resources
> > on the Mac does not mean he invented the concept of resource
> > management.
> >
> > The whole purpose of an OS is to manage resourses, FYI.
> >
> > Still no documentation from you about how long the Mac used DLLs,
> > either.
>
>
> Not to mention AmigaOS had resource management inherent it's design
> (even if it wasn't specifically called that) with an extremely efficient
> microkernel and message passing scheme, DLLs (we called them shared
> libraries), and dynamic task reprioritization/preemptive multitasking
> *looooooooong* before the Mac OS had it.
>
> -Rick

It may have had some of those things before the Mac, but since the Mac
had resource management (management of icons, dialogs, menus, fonts,
etc.) from its inception and since its inception predates the Amiga by
21 months, it didn't have resource management before the Mac.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
.

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