Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!shadooby!netnews.engin.umich.edu!etsu!dave From: dave@etsu.CMI.COM (David Halonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac Message-ID: <1083@etsu.CMI.COM> Date: 28 Nov 89 13:58:58 GMT References: <6432@tank.uchicago.edu> <1574@intercon.com> <14002@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: dave@etsu.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen) Organization: Center for Machine Intelligence, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 18 In article <14002@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He) writes: >[some deleted text] Nice the job Come on now. Who actually does this? Besides, in examining the algorithm for 'nice', one can see that it only makes a piddly small difference anyway. BTW, what was the original thinking when this was implemented? Since when do time sharing users wish to be nice to each other? Perhaps this goes back to Unix's original roots of a couple of programmers sitting together in a room sharing a cpu, and saying to each other, "Come on, be nice to me." Or did Tina say that? I'm sorry, I digress. David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems Ann Arbor, MI (313) 995-0900 AppleLink: N0548 Internet: dave@cmi.com