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The reason

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Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence

Apple were pretty clear about the reason: it offered the quickest and most reliable way to deliver a proper multi-tasking OS. OS9 and below can multi-thread, but OS X has full pre-emptive multi tasking. They tried BeOS and found it too difficult to fit to the Mac environment, hence OS X.


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