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From: milamber@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68040
Summary: Multitask!
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.210447.10853@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:04:47 GMT
References: <4372@crash.cts.com> <119902@linus.mitre.org>
Sender: milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl S. Cantrell)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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>evening. And when I say give up, I mean it.  The machine is so bogged during
>rendering that it takes 20 seconds or so just to get a response to an "info"
>or "dir". And forget even running another task. There are so few cycles left
>
>-------------
>Stephen Okay          Technical Aide, The MITRE Corporation
>OKAY@TAFS.MITRE.ORG
>

Why not try what I do?  After you get the ray-tracing started, go in with
something like Gizmoz's SetPriority, and decrease your 3d program's pri-
ority to -1 .  Then you can use your Amiga if you really want to, and it
will still be tracing away during all that time between keystrokes, or
when it's waiting for your slow, organic eyes to read something..
Of course, the more you steal time slices from the tracer, the longer your
image will take.  But Commodore went to all the trouble of providing you
this preemptive multitasking enviroment!



- Daryl Cantrell, milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu