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Article #29820the real advantage of multi-tasking.
From: Jack Jansen
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1987 20:56
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1987 20:56
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Lots of people say things like 'I don't need real multi-tasking, I'm happy with a spooler and one or two other utilities'. The point, however, is that applications like spoolers become completely trivial once you have multi-tasking. 90% of the code (and the most error-prone 90%, at that) is spent stealing vectors, jumping in and out of supervisory mode, making sure your program isn't overwritten by something else, etc etc etc. I've been working on a network where a number of atari's can use each others disks, but things got so incredibly hairy that I've suspended the project and started thinking about making the BIOS (or maybe even GEMDOS) multiprogrammed first. This will make my remote-disk almost as trivial as a ramdisk..... -- Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl (or jack@mcvax.uucp) The shell is my oyster.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!jack From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: the real advantage of multi-tasking. Message-ID: <153@piring.cwi.nl> Date: 23 Dec 87 20:56:39 GMT References: <rminnich@louie.udel.edu> <19871222172138.2.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 Summary: lots of things get much easier to program.