On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Peter Johansson wrote:
>
>> The reason most people don't know of this is that Macs actually worked
>> very well as desktop machines with cooperative multitasking, unlike
>> Windows boxen of the time which BSODed or needed to be rebooted
>> several times each day.
>
> How come then that some Mac web developer acquaintances of mine never heard
> of having a development web server running on their machines in pre-OS X
> times? Something that was quite common among Windows web developers
> (working on NT type systems). Did they just not know?

Afaik on Macs before OS X there was a strong division between system and 
user tasks. There was only one user task running at any one time, but 
several systems tasks could run concurrently. To have a server running 
one had to make it a system task (I'm probably using the wrong 
terminology for the Mac). Example: file sharing worked in parallel with 
whatever the user was doing with not visible side effects.

Peter
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