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> I remember simultaneously surfing the web, downloading video from a camcorder with a Firewire interface which did not buffer, and compiling Mozilla Did you f

> I remember simultaneously surfing the web, downloading video from a camcorder with a Firewire interface which did not buffer, and compiling Mozilla Did you forget to run the OpenGL teapot? BeOS was magical. I wish I could use Haiku in my desktop today.

jeffbee 6y ago
It wasn't magic, it just starved everything else whenever you waved the mouse around. In this respect it was no different from Mac System 7, even though the design wasn't the same.
- Gracana 6y ago
  That's not true, classic Mac OS used a cooperative multitasking model, where processes had to be friendly enough to yield control back to the system / other processes to allow them to do work. A poorly programmed or greedy process could easily hog the CPU.
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    System 7 checked for mouse motion every fraction of a second and if the mouse was moving it would drop everything and draw. It didn't need apps to yield for this to happen.
    - anthk 6y ago
      Are you comparing that shit when you pulled down a menu in System 7 could bring a whole network down, with Be? Such as a good joke...
  - anthk 6y ago
    The CPU and the whole net by holding a menu item down.
    - Retric 6y ago
      That was arguably an application specific issue, though the OS was painful to code for. I actually coded some classic Mac OS networking code and it was insanely easy to mess things up, but eventually it ended up being rock solid. The trick was all level interrupts where supposed to only do almost nothing. You couldn’t allocate memory for example which was a major hint of just how minimal those functions needed to be. Worse with cooperative multitasking any running application could mess things up.
      - anthk 6y ago
        Then do not talk about Classic Mac as something magical because compared to Be they were utterly ridiculous. For its era, System 7 was good, but later, it was worse than even Windows 98. Be tried to do things right, it was ~1995 after all.
    - agumonkey 6y ago
      I see where java gui coder took their inspiration from /s
- flohofwoe 6y ago
  And that's exactly how a desktop operation system should behave. The most important priority of a user-facing OS should be the user after all.
  - max38 6y ago
    Amen

jeffbee 6y ago

It wasn't magic, it just starved everything else whenever you waved the mouse around. In this respect it was no different from Mac System 7, even though the design wasn't the same.

Gracana 6y ago
That's not true, classic Mac OS used a cooperative multitasking model, where processes had to be friendly enough to yield control back to the system / other processes to allow them to do work. A poorly programmed or greedy process could easily hog the CPU.
- jeffbee 6y ago
  System 7 checked for mouse motion every fraction of a second and if the mouse was moving it would drop everything and draw. It didn't need apps to yield for this to happen.
  - anthk 6y ago
    Are you comparing that shit when you pulled down a menu in System 7 could bring a whole network down, with Be? Such as a good joke...
- anthk 6y ago
  The CPU and the whole net by holding a menu item down.
  - Retric 6y ago
    That was arguably an application specific issue, though the OS was painful to code for. I actually coded some classic Mac OS networking code and it was insanely easy to mess things up, but eventually it ended up being rock solid. The trick was all level interrupts where supposed to only do almost nothing. You couldn’t allocate memory for example which was a major hint of just how minimal those functions needed to be. Worse with cooperative multitasking any running application could mess things up.
    - anthk 6y ago
      Then do not talk about Classic Mac as something magical because compared to Be they were utterly ridiculous. For its era, System 7 was good, but later, it was worse than even Windows 98. Be tried to do things right, it was ~1995 after all.
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    I see where java gui coder took their inspiration from /s
flohofwoe 6y ago
And that's exactly how a desktop operation system should behave. The most important priority of a user-facing OS should be the user after all.
- max38 6y ago
  Amen