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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Amiga Multitasking...yawn
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:50:24 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Jonathan Pitt (trreco@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : Hello Amigians,
-
- : PC-weeNEE here....I have been a PC user for VERY long time. Since the
- : Amiga came out I always interested. I got one now, an A500 1 meg chip,
- : 2megs Fast, WB 2.05, 250megHD .
-
- First of all you can't expect much speed of a simple A500. The processor is
- *slow*.
-
-
- : If I copy a file from disk to Hard drive (OS is on HD but not partition
- : copying to)...I wait and boy do I have to WAIT! Now I thought I could
- : copy a file and do whatever else. Why is this? could I copy a file from
- : floppy to HD, if I had two HD's? One for the OS and One for the file
- : being copied to.
-
- You're confusing two things here: Multi-tasking and multi-threading.
- Let me explain: Simplest is single-threading. Each program acts like it has
- an entire computer all for itself. The program does one thing at the time.
- After finishing that, it goes on to the next thing.
- Then there's multi-threading. Such a program is waiting for input from the
- user. If it get's some input (like 'copy a file to hd') it starts another
- process which will do that and then is immediately ready for new input. Such
- a program can have lot's of child-tasks running at the same time. This is a
- little (but not that much) harder to program.
-
- Unfortuantely the Workbench itself is single-threaded. Thus when you copy a
- file to hd you will have to wait until it's finished before you can do the
- next action with the *workbench*. But it's no problem at all to use other
- programs at the same time. Just start Finalwriter with a print job, real3D
- with a render job and then start copying your file. This will run all at the
- same time. Much smoother than any other OS I've seen. (btw, I think you're
- poor A500 will be totally smoking and slow when you actually try do start
- readl3d, finalwriter etc at the same time, but that's just because the cpu
- is totally outdated).
-
- : Soooo why is Amiga Multitaking better than Win 3.11 or any other OS.
- : Amiga is fast and tasks full advantage of it's resources , but the
- : multitasking is just not that great. Unless it could copy a file, print
- : a page of text, and render an image. That would blow WinDOZE, System 7
- : away as far as multitasking. Thanks in advance for setting me straight!
-
-
- It blows windows, system 7 ! Even when I had a system similar to that a500
- of yours I already had a music-program playing some backgroundmusic when I
- was typing/printing documents. No problem at all.
- Nowadays I have a decent gfx card and a faster cpu and it's the only
- system that I can work comfortable with :-)
-
- I hope I was clear!
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-