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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 10:09:19 +0100
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- nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:
-
- >: /cooperation/ of the OS. I don't know what version your are running, but on
- >: 7.5 when I drag a file from one drive to another and the little progress
- >: window comes up, I can't use the finder for anything else until the copy has
- >: completed.
-
- > Ahh. The problem there isn't multitasking--it's the file system. The
- >file system is not multiTHREADED, so it can only do one thing at a time.
- >(grim but true.)
-
- Isn't the Finder the problem ? The filesystem would just stall
- everything that accesses the disk if you copy the file with a single
- read and a single write which is unlikely.
-
- Also, the progress window is probably a modal requester that freezes
- the GUI. But I'm not sure about that.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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