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Article #1612Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Jim Williams
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:30
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:30
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tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) wrote: > >more efficiently than the preemptive system. But for cooperative systems >where the applications actually cooperate to keep the system responsive, >the preemptive system will be as efficient. > This is not necessarily true. If there are considerable dependencies between the processes then with carefull use of cooperation it is possible to avoid a lot of checking for available data. In very specific situations cooperative systems really do work better -- but those situations are not the desktop environmnet. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX! Microsoft is prohibited from examining any packet containing data originating on any machine which I am using. (Not that I can stop them.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 24 Aug 1995 13:30:07 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <41husv$o3c@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <41astd$53u@steel.interlog.com> <41c9ut$g73@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <41diciINNj1j@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <41h15e$7a5@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)