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From: Matthew Vernon
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <6t2sm6$6l2$1@camel19.mindspring.com>,
James Stutts <stuttjc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>comp.graphics.api.opengl trimmed
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>Matthew Vernon wrote in message <6t2qug$ecd$1@pick.sel.cam.ac.uk>...
>>In article <01bdda56$61639240$8c00a8c0@shindo>,
>>Scott Hill <scott@ddlinks.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Pre-emptive multitasking. Mutlithreading. Resource management. Have ever
>>>programmed for Win95 ? I thought not.
>>
>>multitasking? I run a programme of mine on a PII400. It is quite an
>
>Win95 doesn't multitask well.  NT does it better.  I've been able to
>run I-DEAS FEA models (10,000 node monsters) in the background
>whilst playing Quake (no frame-rate loss noticed).

NT just isn't stable enough, and sysadmining it is a nightmare.

Matthew

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From: mcv21@cam.ac.uk (Matthew Vernon)
Subject: Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
Date: 1998/09/08
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