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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: Swich It and Multitasking
- References: <1992Aug19.054423.14630@ausom.oz.au>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:33:59 GMT
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- cjs@ausom.oz.au (Cameron Silver) writes:
-
- >My understanding of Switch It is that it can suspend execution of program A,
- >and resume executing program B, at the user's request; and of course go the
- >other way. Now if it switched between programs A and B very rapidly, wouldn't
- >it be (at the user's point of view) the same as multitasking the two programs?
-
- Sure. But, oh fun, think of the switching-times you have. Every time SI
- switches, it has to save and restore a whole context, which takes _quite_
- some time. As user, you wouldn't notice, but if you attempted to switch every
- say 1/60th of a second, you darn sure would.
-
- So, I'm afraid that wouldn't work too well :)
-
- Soenke
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