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- From: thomasl@uniserve.com (Thomas Lam)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 03:35:41 GMT
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- In article <DM4LAG.88v@assip.csasyd.oz>, daveg@syd.csa.com.au says...
- >
- >>...
- >>
- >>>Instead of just waiting you can also run some other apps. Don't forget
- >>>Windows 95 multitasks too. I found it quite adequate. Of course, I run
- >>>all my internet stuff under Linux. It'll be a cold day in hell before I
- >>>swap my elm, netscape/linux, ircII, etc for Exchange, Explorer and
- mIrc.
- >>>
- >>Sorry but Win 95 task switches true multitasking requires more than 1
- CPU
- >>and there ain't an SMP version of Schwin 95.
- >>
- >>I also use Linux
- >
- >You idiot. You are confusing multi-tasking and multi-processing. (SMP is
- >an acronym for Symmetric Multi-Processing.)
- >
- >Multi-tasking is where multiple tasks are time-multiplexed onto one CPU,
- >whilst multi-processing is where multiple tasks are run simultaneously on
- >more than one CPU. Note that even in a multi-processing system,
- >multiplexing may take place if the number of running tasks becomes
- greater
- >than the number of available CPUs.
- >
- >
- >Dave.
- >
- >
-
- I maybe wrong, but i thought even Windows 3.X is multi-tasking but
- they are just "coporative multi-task" rather than "preemptive multi-task"
- which uses "multi-threading" and "time-slicing" as in Windows 95 and OS/2.
-
- Correct me if i am wrong.
-
- Tom
- >ps. I don't use Linux, I use FreeBSD. So there.
- >
- >
- >
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