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- From: tiago@blade (Tiago Gons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <5275@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:36:14 GMT
- References: <ewright.715553413@convex.convex.com>
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- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- : In <nigel.715395259@saturn> nigel@socs.uts.edu.au (Nigel Pearson) writes:
- : > 1) MacOs already does this at times. You shove a disk in, and mouse
- : > response, or file de-compression speed slows down.
- : Yes, but with a preemptive operating system, that can happen *anytime*,
- : not just at well-defined times, such as in response to a disk-insert
- : event.
-
- Pardon me, but only in pre-emptive os's this time is well-defined. In
- non-preemptive os's it just depends on the particular set of processes
- which is running. A pre-emptive os can guarantee response time (in terms
- of updates of the mouse per second), which a non-preemptive can not.
-
- : cycles sometime. The only optimal solution is a dynamic (i.e., cooperative)
- : solution.
-
- No, the optimal one is a clairvoyant one, but that is also difficult to
- implement :-). Cooperative scheme's work only when all processes cooperate,
- and this means that they have to be bug-free.
-
- : >>Preemptive multitasking only works well for noninteractie, batch-oriented
- : >>systems or interactive systems with multiple processors.
- : > Bullshit.
- : Oh, very clever. That convinces me *completely*.
-
- Well, I'm glad it does. Unix seems to work pretty well on single-processors
- too.
-
- Stephan Eggermont
- stephan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
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