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Article #3265Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Karl Thomas
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:41
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:41
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Lawson English <english@primenet.com> writes: >Joe Ragosta <jragosta@dca.net> wrote: >: In article <4gl353$d36@news-f.iadfw.net>, clyde@iadfw.net (Clyde Coffey) wrote: >[snipt] >Technically, everything is pre-emptive under Copland, but only one BLue >Box (System 7 or Copland app) task is allowed to receive CPU >time and all others are blocked until that active task calls WNE, >effectively making all *applications* cooperatively multi-tasked, even >ones written specifically for Copland. That is, all other BB processes are blocked but the whole BB is one process under Copland that is preemptively multitasking with all other apps. Meaning the copland process would still run but it couldn't update the UI until it got it's time under the cooperative multitasking BB. Sort of like MachTen does today. Every app run under MachTen is preemptively multitasked but Machten itself is treated as just another cooperatively multitasked process under System 7. Well actually it's just the opposite of how Copland will work.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nyx.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 26 Feb 1996 08:41:38 -0700 Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept. Message-ID: <4gskbi$kgh@nyx.cs.du.edu> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824606547@rscernix> <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> <4gckcj$de3@cville-srv.wam.u <4glem9$li5@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx.nyx.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)