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Article #836Re: Pre-Emptive Mutlitasking(was re: Apple?)
From: Chester Karma
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:34
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:34
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In article <3uv3f8$7pr@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> Simmo@fish.nose.com (Simmo) writes: >>>>Humans are inherently preemptive multitasking systems. >>How you can post here and have your heart beat at the same time then? :-) >So does that mean my Microwave is Multitasking?? >It cooks my dinner and tells me the time!! Hey it even turns the light on!! >and my Mac SE, >I can run the finder and the fan that cools the thing at the same time!!! What about the mother of all multitaskers: The Universe? Everything happens at the same time, it even runs multitaskers within itself! :) Actually, I think all the examples above are moreorless parallel multitasking, since they're not really sharing anything. And everyone knows parallel multitasking is the ONLY multitasking (in the true sense of the word) :)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!cris.com!fts From: fts@cris.com (Chester Karma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Pre-Emptive Mutlitasking(was re: Apple?) Message-ID: <fts.32.0029BB57@cris.com> Date: 10 Aug 95 01:34:58 GMT References: <3rps76$e63@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <davidc-1007951014330001@macq106.psy.uwa.oz.au> <3tq520$n4e@hudson.lm.com> <3tr6aa$idu@blackice.winternet.com> <3tucc8$817@access5.digex.net> <3u05ca$3mt@panix.com> <nelson.805577939@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu> <3u4hvo Organization: FtS Productions NNTP-Posting-Host: crc6-fddi.cris.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4]