Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ogccse!orstcs!nucthy!ghe From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Message-ID: <14002@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 89 04:04:33 GMT References: <6432@tank.uchicago.edu> <1574@intercon.com> Sender: useneta@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: ghe@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He) Organization: Dept. of Physics, Oregon State University Lines: 35 In article <1574@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: [some text deleted] > For a Macintosh, MultiFinder does an excellent job of allocating time and > resources. For an example, Try running a Mac binary on a heavily loaded > (or even lightly loaded :-)) A/UX system--it's pre-emptive, and it makes > everything equally slow. Under MultiFinder, things stay generally pretty > quick, in comparison. For most things, I'd actually rather use my Mac II > with MultiFinder than a Sun 3 with the same amount of memory running UNIX, > since I get to control how slow it gets... > > Complaining that "the Macintosh doesn't have the kind of multitasking > I think I want" is fine. Complaining that it doesn't have "true multitasking" > just demonstrates ignorance. > > Amanda Walker > InterCon Systems Corporation > -- Complaining that you can't control the speed of a job on a UNIX machine is ignorance, too. On a UNIX machine, you really get the control you want. Although you can't go too faster (get a cray if you really want fast). you can always slow your job. Nice the job, put it in background. Do whatever you want. But I fail to see how good contral I can have under Multifinder. Maybe someone could tell me how to control the speed of a job under multifinder. ======================================================================= USMAIL: Guangliang He | INTERNET: ghe@PHYSICS.ORST.EDU Department of Physics | BITNET: hegl@ORSTVM.BITNET Weniger Hall 301 | Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR 97331-6507 | PHONE: (503) 737-4631 =======================================================================