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Article #3049Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 11:11
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 11:11
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In article <19960201.11A2980.E21F@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don
Schmelling) wrote:
> And once again, I must ask the question, but how are you runing more than
> one program at once in a cooperative multitasking system, while a program
> like that one is being run.
If I ever have an occasion to run a brain-dead program like void
main(void) { for (;;); }, I'll let you know. It isn't a very interesting
question to me, since it just doesn't come up in Real Life. If you wish
to pay me to test brain dead programs on a Mac, I'd be more than happy to
oblige.
> The program never tells the os it is done
> with the cpu and just uses up all of the cpu.
Which is, of course, not true. Interrupts still occur.
> If you are only running one
> task that gets all of the cpu then you are not multitasking.
And I have yet to find a reason to run programs this badly written. Is
this really what you use your Amiga for??
--
Nevin ":-)" Liber nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (520) 293-2799
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CS.Arizona.EDU!NewsWatcher!user From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 04:11:06 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona Message-ID: <nevin-0302960411460001@150.135.1.79> References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4d428mINNe14@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4d9ui4$e63@macshack.com> <david-1401960302090001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu> <1996Jan26.192156@eigb> <jragosta-2601961539320001 <19960201.11A2980.E21F@olympus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4