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TITLE

     Executive

VERSION

     1.00

AUTHOR

     Petri Nordlund (petrin@mits.mdata.fi)
     (http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin)

DESCRIPTION

     Executive is a UNIX-like task scheduler for Amiga. It also has
     plenty of other features previously available only in larger
     operating systems.

     The scheduler recalculates task priorities based on system load
     average and task's recent CPU usage. This will give high priority
     to interactive tasks and low priority to CPU bound tasks. After
     you have installed Executive you no longer have to constantly
     adjust task priorities. You'll find your Amiga to be much easier
     and efficient to use with Executive.

     Other features include:
     - highly accurate (1/1000 seconds) CPU usage timing
     - 6 different scheduling algorithms
     - load averages
     - process identifiers
     - process group identifiers
     - accounting
     - focus - task with active window gets more CPU time
     - support for MultiUser

     Executive is similar to Job Manager or Spy System, but it has more
     features than these two together.

     Executive doesn't use any illegal programming, it is fully compatible
     with all Amiga computers running AmigaDos release 2.04 or newer.

     Executive has been carefully designed to work with all kinds of
     configurations and care has been taken not to break any programming
     rules.

     Executive consists of a server and clients. The server is run
     in the background and it takes care of scheduling, CPU usage
     calculations and many other things. The client programs are:

       acct            accounting daemon
       ALoad           display load average
       ALoad3D         display load averages in 3D
       Commander       general task manager
       ctp             extended ChangeTaskPri
       kill            extended Break
       lastcomm        list last commands executed
       nice            run programs with lower scheduling priority
       ps              process status displayer
       pstree          display child-parent relationships
       renice          renice a task
       sa              print accounting statistics
       stat            display some misc. information
       timer           time CLI and Workbench programs
       top             display information about top CPU tasks
       uptime          display system uptime and load averages

     It's not possible to give a full description of all Executive
     features here, so try it out. You don't want to use your Amiga
     without it.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     AmigaDos 2.04 or newer is required to run Executive.

AVAILABILITY

     Any Aminet site, for example:

     ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/aminet/util/misc/Executive.lha

     Executive has a WWW-page which has links to several Aminet
     sites and also some nice screenshots. The page URL is:

     http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin/Executive.html

PRICE

     The freely redistributable version doesn't lack any crucial features
     so it can be used without registering. Registered users get
     process accounting, the ALoad3D client and 5 additional scheduler
     algorithms. Registration fee is $15 and the payment can also be
     made in many other currencies.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Copyright © 1995 Petri Nordlund, freely redistributable.

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