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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 10:22:58 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) writes:
-
- >>On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:51:24 GMT, finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- >>wrote:
-
- >>>You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when you
-
- >>No computer runs 2 apps at one time at the processor level. The Win
- >>DOS boxes multitask, and both run at once, which you'd know if you'd
- >>tried it for any length of time.
-
- >For your information, all I had to use for three months last year was a 486
- >PC, which is plenty of time to get to know a system. Wintel may multitask
- >under '95, but it can't under 3.1.
-
- Multitasking - when two or more processes share the cpu
- Task Switching - when two or more processes are in memory at one time but
- only one process uses the CPU.
-
- Windows 3.1 does multitask. The only difference between Windows 3.1's
- multitasking and the Amigas or Windows '95 multitasking is that the app
- controls when it will give up CPU time.
-
-
-
- >>>multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor time,
-
- Your definition is completely wrong. Multitasking is just sharing
- processor time with each app. No where in the definition of multitasking
- is how the CPU time is allocated/
-
-
- >>>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.
-
- With cooperative multitasking that Win3.1 uses, the OS decides which app
- to give processing time to but the app chooses when to release the
- processor. But it is still multitasking
-
-
- >The point of multitasking is that you don''t have to. Task switching means
- >that you do have to to get results. I have never had to change a taskpri on
- >my Amiga, and it still runs better than any Wintel machine.
-
- Multitasking has nothing to do with the ability to change processor task
- priorities. It's just a fn added feature.
-