On 12/5/95 Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:33:31 +0200, Eric Thomas wrote:
>Yes, there  will be a  Mac version. This being  said, before you  get too
>enthusiastic about  the Mac becoming  the LISTSERV server of  choice, you
>may want  to question someone  who knows both  the Mac and  other systems
>well,  and ask  about the  Mac's multitasking  capabilities. When  you're
>handling 100k daily deliveries or more, multitasking is everything.
 
As nearly as I can tell, the Mac multitasks as well as WinDOZE 95.  Neither
OS really does interrupt driven multitasking.  Until recently the Mac's
cooperative multitasking tended to bog down when applications were doing a
lot of I/O.  Using the multi-threading extension and some other tricks
available with third-party software such as SpeedDoubler, the I/O slowdown
is MUCH less of a problem although interrupt driven multitasking will be
superior.
 
The trade press hasn't been clear about whether the new MacOS currently
scheduled for mid-96 will be a truly interrupt driven OS (it *was* supposed
to be, but then so was Win95 in the original specs).  Apple has been at
work on the next two generations of the MacOS (codenames Copeland and
Gershwin) for a couple of years.  "Gershwin," if it ships in our lifetime,
WILL be interrupt driven; Copeland seems to be shedding features as it
nears completion :-(
 
If we get a PowerMac to run LISTSERV on, we'll probably dedicate it to
nothing but serving lists.
 
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