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In article <jragosta-0809950828450001@ppp-1013.dca.net>,
Joe Ragosta <jragosta@dca.net> wrote:
>In article <DEJ81J.2JK@frobozz.sccsi.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
>Brown) wrote:
>
>> I'll certainly agree that preemptive multitasking isn't as much of an
>> improvement over cooperative multitasking as protected memory is over
>> unprotected memory, but it's nonetheless an improvement that has the
>> potential to be rather significant.  PMT on a Mac would mean that my
>> fiancee could have run her statistical analysis on her data and
>> continued to work on her thesis at the same time, instead of waiting
>> hours for the analysis to complete.
>
>Re-read your paragraph. You admit that PMT isn't much of an improvement
>over CMT. Then you state that your fiance can do her work with PMT but not
>with CMT. Isn't that a tad inconsistent? In fact, there's no reason she
>can't send her statistical analysis into the background and work on her
>thesis with cooperative multitasking. 

   If the statistical analysis program doesn't politely give up the
CPU occasionally, but instead sits down and quietly analyses a 100
million element collection of figures, I don't see that the Mac has
any choice aside from just sitting there and (if you're lucky) popping
up the hourglass for a hour or twenty.

   Don't assume that every app is written to allow cooperative
multitasking, or that everybody has the luxury of being able to
discard applications at will until they find a suite that works
together.

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