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From: olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Chatterbox problem
Message-ID: <4710009@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 18:23:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO
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In article <1796@unccvax.UUCP> fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick Pasotto) writes:
>The program also uses 100% of processor time, so while it works, it is 
>unusable in a multi-tasking system.

karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) replies:
>THIS IS FALSE.  I just tested the program, and it DOES MULTITASK.

I've seen some brain-dead early versions of shells which run things at
really high priorities, making it look like the program takes over the
machine.  Mouse movement stops, etc.  If you have this problem and are
using a shell, try it without a shell.  If it misbehaves from a standard
cli, *then* you probably have a bug of some sort.

John M. Olsen, Graphics Software Engineer
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