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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
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Date: 21 Sep 90 22:36:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu

 
I know, this has little to do with the entirety of your reply...but I'd like
to address your first statement about MultiFinder mtasking (supposedly) and
issue a challenge to any MultiFinder user running on any Mac.
 
Just how many programs can you have running concurrently on a Mac under
MFinder, a PC under Win3...OS/2...Desqview...GEOS...whatever?  Have you ever
tried to find the max on your Amiga?
 
Well, I haven't found it yet, but sofar, I and my partner have been able to
have FIFTY-FOUR concurrent tasking running at once.  This was on an A2500/30
with 4MB 32bit FastRAM/1MB 16bit ChipRAM.
 
We had:
.......Fourty-Nine copies of CLOCK.
.......DOTS
.......SPOTS
.......BOXES
.......PERFMON
.......Dpaint3 doing a bouncing ball animation
 
These were chosen because they all require constant onscreen refreshing, and
don't sit idle in the background like a WP or other application.  Also, since
the Amiga doesn't presently support memory protection, the fourty-nine copies
of clock were a real test as well...EXEC handled things flawlessly.  Oh, and
the DPaint anim ran smoothly as well (surprising, but nice!).  And we still
have about 1.5MB to play with.
 
I'd like to see a similar test tried on other platforms...
 
Sean
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