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Article #3087Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: bryan white
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:34
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:34
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Nevin :-] Liber wrote: > > In article <19960204.10AE3B8.A1B8@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don > Schmelling) wrote: > [stuff deleted] > What happens on your Amiga if I raise the priority on for (;;); so that it > is higher than everything else? Are you still multitasking? If not, then > the Amiga is just as broken as CMT systems. If yes, then there is no way > to guarantee that you won't be switched out, which can also be a bad > thing, depending on what you are doing. > I believe the same things happen on the vax/vms systems that I use. You can raise priority until things get nasty. There were a lot of warnings about not raising the priority of any process higher than say the scheduler. bryan -- > Nevin ":-)" Liber nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (520) 293-2799
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!noether.jci.com!usenet From: bryan white <bwhite3@ix.netcom.com> 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: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:34:50 -0800 Organization: IS Message-ID: <31190CEA.2B67@ix.netcom.com> 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 <19960204.10AE3B8.A1B8@olympus.net> <nevin-0402961759250001@150.135.1.79> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.35.113.9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I)