Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: J.C.Highfield
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:01

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"Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes:
>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. 

Actually I was thinking of inconsistent/slow response using a Macintosh with
a background task.

Windows long ago managed to train me out of trying to make it do two things 
at once....

Regards,
        Julian

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