Re: Steve Jobs' QOTD
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man
(Post 602073)
For example, I think Bounce and the default media player [for video] will pause if you take focus away from them.
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They do. All foreground processing halts until you proceed back, but this is voluntary behavior. Xchat and the browser, for instance, will do a live update on the window.
There is nothing terribly -new- about Microsoft or Apple's approach to multitasking. The only remotely "innovative" bit is handing processing out to Grand Central, which has some (probably severe) RAM and CPU caps that it enforces. |
