From running multitasking on a single CPU, MultiFinder and cooperative multitasking, massively parallel systems using Transputers, to building concurrency into the Swift language.
Category Archive: Macs
When will we learn about macOS 15? What important changes will it bring? When will the public beta be available? Will there be any new Macs?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Thinly dispersed […]
Sparse files are now common among databases, disk images, and virtual machines. How they work in APFS, how they’re created, and how they can explode.
Consider the fidelity of backup copies, the speed of a backup method, and the risk of losing the contents of that backup. And test backups by restoring samples from them.
Swift 6 is the first major version for 5 years, and features structured concurrency that will change software for macOS over the coming years.
Auto-update in SilentKnight 2.7 and 2.8, and in Skint 1.05 and 10.6, is broken. This is because of not one but two Catch-22s.
Classic TM backed up HFS+ to HFS+; current TM backs up APFS to APFS. But what if you want to back up a mixture of APFS and HFS+ volumes?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 258. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sneak […]
For 18 years, cloning a boot disk was popular and effective. It was even used as a way of defragmenting free space in housekeeping. Why doesn’t it work with Apple’s new Macs?
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