This reminds me of anecdotes I’ve heard whereby MacOS’ lack of preemptive multitasking led to the situation whereby if somebody were to open and hold the apple

This reminds me of anecdotes I’ve heard whereby MacOS’ lack of preemptive multitasking led to the situation whereby if somebody were to open and hold the apple menu on their machine it would receive but not yield the token (because network processing was essentially suspended while it followed the user’s every action with the GUI of that menu).