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TylerE 7 hours ago

That was because MacOS classic couldn’t multitask

card_zero 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure it could, it had cooperative multitasking. Inside Macintosh instructed programmers on the importance of politely giving way to other processes.

https://archive.org/details/inside-macintosh-1992-1994/1992-...

WaitNextEvent (hmm, a Windows call has the same name, but functions differently I think).

TylerE 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Multitasking via mandatory manual yields isn’t.