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- From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Messages vs. Semaphores for external clocking
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 07:33:39 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell
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- In article <4kkbrt$n4i@northshore.shore.net>, farren@shore.net (Mike Farren) writes:
- >barnhoorn@nlev00 () writes:
- >
- >>Agree (I meant Forbid()/Permit()). But 'you stop all other tasks'
- >>is wrong. In my Amiga only ONE task is running at the same time.
- >
- >Not if you're running the AmigaOS, there isn't. Get a good system
- >monitor, and check out just how many processes are running in the
- >background - it's quite a largish number.
- >
- Hmm, it depends on how you see 'multitasking'. In my Amiga there is
- only one 68040 that is capable of running one task/process at
- a time. When the AmigaOS says '21 processes running', it actually
- means there are 21 processes handled by the CPU, ONE AT A TIME.
- The taskscheduler switches from process to process, making it look
- like all 21 processes are running simultaneously.
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- Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- Alcatel Telecom Systems
- Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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