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- From: peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: How does MultiFinder switch programs? (Q)
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 08:58:48 CDT
- Organization: Cube Technologies
- Message-ID: <dx3uv972.dhcq81@moebius.cubetech.com>
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- How does MultiFinder/Sys7Finder do it? How does it switch the program
- flow to a background program? And how does it switch foreground applications?
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- I am asking for answers on an 68030 assembly level. What registers
- is it messing with? Does it merely pull the other app's registers
- out of storage and restore them? Or what?
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- Please mail me all responses at peterc@cubetech.com (cubetech!peterc
- doesn't work). I will post a summary (assuming I get some answers)...
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- Peter Creath "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could
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- -- Clarence Darrow
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