Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!sapphire!matt From: matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov (matt of ASTD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking Message-ID: <4019@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 13 Jun 90 00:12:57 GMT References: <25935@netnews.upenn.edu> <31490@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: matt@sapphire.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (matt of ASTD) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 20 `(1) How does the Amiga truely multitask. Does it have more than one `processor or does there have to be more than one processor in order to `multitask? I heard one person say that there was no true multitasking `because there was only on processor. Note that there is a big difference between multitasking and multiprocessing. Multitasking can be done on a single chip. Most computers today are not considered multiprocessors. However, they do multitask. If you want to understand the difference read a book on operating systems. The amiga does perform true multitasking. So that "one person" has no idea what they are talking about. Some multiprocessing machines are BBN Butterfly, Hypercube, Connection Machine, Transputers, and many others. I know of no PC that is a multiprocessing machine (unless you hook it up to a transputer board). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Presley (UCLA CS Grad. Student) & (JPL CS dude) Internet (presley@cs.ucla.edu) or (matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov) "Twisted yellow puppies play broken flutes loudly..."