Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story
Cars That Think
JULY 2, 2023
Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on. This complex operation requires more memory and hardware than the Macintosh designers could afford.
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