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- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 17:37:45 +0000 (GMT)
- From: Yves Pelletier <ypelletier@cmc.aes.doe.ca>
- Subject: Multitos and MiNT getting a bad rep
- To: "jwahar r. bammi" <bammi@cadence.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9403191624.AA17661@acae127>
- Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9403191710.A19230-0100000@cidsv07>
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- On Sat, 19 Mar 1994, jwahar r. bammi wrote:
-
- > does anyone else get the distinct impression that MiNT is getting a
- > real bad reputation as being a dog becase of MultiTOS. i got an
- > unsolicited copy of the local north attleboro atari users group
- > newsletter, where the main feature at this months meeting was a geneva
- > demo. one of the big seeling points of geneva according to the
- > newletter is that it is not a dog like MultiTOS. in the accompanying
- > article, the author who reviews geneva offers this explaination as the
- > main reason -- "Geneva uses ccoperative multitasking. This is the
- > method used by MAC's system 7 and MSDOS Windows. .... MultiTOS is a
- > pre-emtive multitasking. It severly controls each application's access
- > to the CPU ......" [more nonsense deleted].
-
- Sigh... Yes, it is getting a bit annoying, I see this everywhere.
-
- I have Geneva myself, and I am fairly impressed with it, but I don't
- use it, and won't, as long as it remains incompatible with MiNT.
- I'll grant that on systems too small for Multitos, Geneva is a very
- nice enhancement if you insist on multitasking applications.
-
- >
- > maybe multiTOS is a dog, i dunno, never used it. but MiNT itself, as we
- > all know is very acceptable (i use it with a shell usually,
- > and/or with toswin sometimes).
-
- I run Multitos every day (on a TT). I have version 4.0 of the AES and
- MiNT 1.10 with some optimization patches. The only drawback is that I
- can't run Warp 9. (I know about NVDI but I don't have the money).
-
- I ran a benchmark on GEM graphics and alphanumeric output, comparing
- my Multitos setup with single-tasking GEM (TOS 3.06, no screen accelerator).
- Not only is Multitos _NOT_ a dog, it was actually 2 or 3 percent faster
- than singletasking GEM on most tests. The only test that was drastically
- slower under Multitos was window redraw (which is a more complex
- operation under Multitos.)
-
- Funny, though, I too used to complain about the speed of Multitos,
- especially when running STalker. Could it be that there was such
- and improvement between MiNT 1.04 and 1.10, that it would speed up
- Multitos as a whole?
-
- >
- > i leave you with another amusing quote from the same article
- >
- > "Atari was so impressed with Eric Smith, the author of MultiTos, that
- > they hired him. Given the performance of Geneva versus MultiTos, they
- > should sign over the company to Dan Wilga, the author of Geneva".
- >
-
- What a crock.
-
-
- Cheers,
-
- Yves
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- Yves Pelletier ypelletier@cmc.aes.doe.ca
- Section analyse et pronostic
- Centre Meteorologique Canadien Not a CMC spokesman
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