🚀 go-pugleaf

>Repeat after me:
>Multitasking means the ability for a computer to have two tasks executing
>simultaneously (in the user's time frame--not in the computer's time
>frame). There are two flavors: cooperative and preemptive. Both are
>multitasking.
>If you'd like to argue that preemptive multitasking is superior in some
>way and have facts to support it, feel free. But your statement that MacOS
>or Win3.1 don't multitask is just plain wrong.

Technically.  However, when it gets to the point of causing serious 
performance hits I cease to even call it multitasking.  An ideal 
multitasking machine would divide the available resources by half if 
running 2 processes, and execute the two in parallel in the same 
timeframe that they'd use if excecuted in a series (think electrical 
current here, I can't think of another way to describe it).  A good 
multitasking machine will take a performance hit, but one which comes 
damn near locking up like a Mac or win3.1 box is not worth using for such 
tasks.


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