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- From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:44:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep09.093234.23094@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep8.230955.15392@zooid.guild.org> kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
- >>The early beta versions of
- >>MultiTOS were slow, unreliable and unstable. Nothing much has really changed.
- >
- > If this is true, then I'd like to know what Atari did to MiNT to do this.
- > MiNT only has a 10% CPU overhead at worst. Not many multi-tasking OS's can
- > do that well.
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- Don't worry, it isn't true. I suspect that he was comparing apples and
- oranges. No doubt OS/2 on a 50 Mhz 486 is faster than MultiTOS on an 8 Mhz
- ST. But I suspect that given comparable hardware, MultiTOS is as fast or
- faster.
- --
- Eric R. Smith email:
- Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca
- University of Western Ontario
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