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- From: martin@llanelli.demon.co.uk (Martin Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:52:10 GMT
- Organization: Dyfed Clam Farm
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- Finn Higgins (finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz) wrote:
- : You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when you
- : multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor time,
- : and with task-switching, it only gives a diffent one all the power, the one
- : you have selected at the time. This gives the illusion of multitasking, but
- : it isn't true multitasking.
-
- I'm afraid you're wrong about that, Win 3.x pre-emptively multitasks DOS
- sessions, unlike Win apps which multitask co-operatively. You can set the
- background (and foreground) priority of each DOS session individually from
- the control panel, using the PIF editor.
-
- Regards,
-
- Martin.
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