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Article #3086Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Zdenek Salvet
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 17:26
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 17:26
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nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:
>> 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.
I have a few apps that compute hours on 300MFLOPS processor before
they need to use system call. How would they multitask on a Mac ?
Are you saying computational chemistry doesn't come up in Real Life ?
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Zdenek Salvet salvet@ics.muni.cz
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.int Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.fi.muni.cz!anxur!salvet From: salvet@anxur.dcs.muni.cz (Zdenek Salvet) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Sender: news@news.fi.muni.cz (System Administrator) Organization: Masaryk University,Brno Message-ID: <salvet.823627571@anxur> References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4d428mINNe14@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:26:11 GMT