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- From: nigel@socs.uts.edu.au (Nigel Pearson)
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <nigel.715395259@saturn>
- Sender: news@socs.uts.edu.au
- Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
- References: <1992Aug19.014443.1@vax1.umkc.edu> <ewright.714240935@convex.convex.com> <ajross.714324371@husc10> <ewright.714340143@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 00:54:19 GMT
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- In <ewright.714340143@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- [in response to MacOs not having pre-emptive multitasking]
-
- >No, thank God! I don't want an OS that can come along and hit
- >an application over the head while it's doing something critical
- >like updating the screen or interacting with the user.
-
- 1) MacOs already does this at times. You shove a disk in, and mouse
- response, or file de-compression speed slows down.
-
- 2) If you don't want other tasks to pre-empt what you are doing,
- raise the priority of the important task. Some OS's do this
- automatically for the "foreground" application. (i.e. the one
- which has user input at the moment - the active window)
-
- >Preemptive multitasking only works well for noninteractie, batch-oriented
- >systems or interactive systems with multiple processors.
-
- Bullshit.
-
-
- >>Memory Protection?
-
- >Apparently, yes. This is discussed in Inside Mac Vol VI, although
- >few details are given. Not that I care very much. Memory protection
- >is a poor substitute for programs that work properly and don't crash,
- >and there aren't many Windows programs that I can say that about.
-
- Ever developed a program? Ever used a Free/Shareware INIT which
- crashed the system because it wasn't tested thoroughly enough, or tested
- on your particular system?
-
-
- >>Symmetric Multi-Processing?
-
- >I'm not even sure what this is. If it's anything more than
- >marketing speak, I'd like to hear more.
-
- More than one processor, attached symmetrically to the buss?
-
- >>Please do some fact checking the next time you want to claim that NT is
- >>just a bad System 7 clone.
-
- >Okay, I checked. It still is.
-
- In your humble opinion.
-
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- Nigel Pearson, research dog's-body @ University of Technology, Sydney.
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