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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <ALANB.92Sep8171221@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 08 Sep 92 16:12:21 GMT
- References: <ewright.714340143@convex.convex.com> <nigel.715395259@saturn><ewright.715553413@convex.convex.com> <16789@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: Shape Data (Division of EDS), Cambridge UK
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- In-reply-to: putzolu@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu's message of 5 Sep 92 02:49:57 GMT
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- >>>>> On 5 Sep 92 02:49:57 GMT, putzolu@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (David Putzolu) said:
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- > In article <ewright.715553413@convex.convex.com> 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.
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- You say that as if you think it was a bad thing...
-
- >>>>Preemptive multitasking only works well for noninteractie, batch-oriented
- >>>>systems or interactive systems with multiple processors.
- >>
- >>> Bullshit.
- >>
- >>Oh, very clever. That convinces me *completely*.
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- Try using Unix, VMS, OS/2, AmigaOS or any other operating system designed with
- pre-emptive multitasking. Cooperative multitasking is a usable workaround, but
- to claim it as optimal is ridiculous.
-
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