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Article #2092Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Amancio Hasty, Jr.
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 19:18
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 19:18
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J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk wrote: >As you stated, the real problem with cooperative multitasking is that, to >get good response when there is some CPU-hungry task in the background that >task must return control to the OS often enough. Unfortunately, in the real >world most such background tasks don't. > Of course you mean that in the "Real World" such as Windows 3.1 where the notion of compute intensive background processing is not desired because the model is more of a single task system as well as the proper OS support. -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 10 Sep 1995 19:18:53 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Message-ID: <42vdmu$qk7@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <19950904.1178078.10576@olympus.net> <nevin-0809950153300001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <id.0S6N1.653@nmti.com> <DEnGuG.FqA@lut.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:DEnGuG.FqA@lut.ac.uk