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- From: Petri.Virkkula@hut.fi (Petri Virkkula)
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- In-Reply-To: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:41:12 GMT
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:54:22
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- On Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:41:12 GMT, dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) said:
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- Duncan> In article <9212142475@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
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- Duncan> The number of times where it really matters whether two programs are run
- Duncan> concurrently at half speed or sequentially at full speed is so tiny, that I
- Duncan> doubt if it's on anybody's "10 most important projects" list.
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-
- Idea behind multitasking is to utilize all possible CPU
- cycles. In case of "tar tvf dile.tar | more" or similar
- command sequences the programs are not sun at half speed.
- When "more" is waiting input the "tar" can read ahead from
- slow disk.
-
- IMHO there is no point to make faster machines than 386
- if they use MSDOS or similar operating system, the CPU
- would be idle most of the time.
-
-
- Petri
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