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Article #3128Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Philip Machanick
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 06:52
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 06:52
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In article <31117332.72ED@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote: >Have never happend on my NT system. Maybe I can download your application and try >it? A preemptive, protected system can still be locked up by users, but not as easily. For example, a program which launches two copies of itself then quits can take over all available processes and make it impossible to launch anything -- including any attempt at killing the offending processes (seen on an SGI). Good sysadmin can avoid this specific problem -- but there maybe others. Not that I am defending the Mac's non-preemption, but let's not argue in absolutes. -- Philip Machanick Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand 2050 Wits, South Africa philip@cs.wits.ac.za 27(11)716-3309 fax 339-7965
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mackerel.cs.wits.ac.za!user From: philip@cs.uct.ac.za (Philip Machanick) 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: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 08:52:34 +0200 Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University Message-ID: <philip-0602960852340001@mackerel.cs.wits.ac.za> 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@ppp-1001.dca.net> <9601272105.AA17852@dxmint.cern.ch> <DLzvCC.JMD@artemis.sto.fdata.se> <31117332.72ED@mts.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: mackerel.cs.wits.ac.za X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b20.0+