Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Fredrik.Pettersson
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:36

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Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

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>Is it?  Pray tell, how is MacOS multitasking the following "application":

>main() { for(;;); }

I did one of those on a NT at work and it really shared processor time nicely,
100% to that process and nothing to the other applications.

So if you write your applications badly they will lock system more or less even
in a preemtive environment.

Is it my ignorance or could I be right on this point?

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