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From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
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Date: 1 Dec 89 23:25:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dave@etsu.CMI.COM's message of 28 Nov 89 13:58:58 GMT

In article <1083@etsu.CMI.COM> dave@etsu.CMI.COM (David Halonen) writes:

   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.

We do. In real time systems implemented on Unix (a bit of a
contradiction I understand) this little priority change can completely
change the dynamics of our environment.