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JEDIDIAH

I agree with that.

Then you have made your "experiences" highly suspect, as the Mac most certainly did stop doing anything else when the mouse button was held. That's why the menus disappeared when the mouse button was released, so the Mac could go back to doing other things.

"Why does everything stop when you hold down the mouse button?"

"It doesn't all come to a stop. However, mouse operations have always been of the utmost priority in the Mac, so lots of other things get put aside while the user is busy with the mouse. If you're using an application which only does one thing at once, then everything else it does will be on hold while you hold down the button. (If you're not using Mac OS X, then nearly everything the operating system (not just that program) does will be on hold too.) This is a neat illustration of the difference between co-operative and pre-emptive multi-tasking. Because the mouse button has such high priority, under a co-operative mulbreastasking system many other things the system might have to do simply have to wait. The mouse is more important, so everything else has to wait. "

Any operating system has to be told exactly where to put things.

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-- "But SunOS was just a purchased OS. Like Apple, Sun purchased and sic OS and then developed it. No more." -- Alan "Wrong Again" Baker