Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....) Message-ID: <1990Dec24.132204.17059@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 24 Dec 90 13:22:04 GMT References: <54.27730FA6@ijcr.fidonet.org> <186801ce.ARN0872@easy.UUCP> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 16 In article <186801ce.ARN0872@easy.UUCP>: >If a program is written to print the words "hello world" in an endless loop >and was compiled without changes on a Mac, 286 PC, and an Amiga. The only >machine that would multitask with that program running would be the Amiga. Change the program a bit: write one which simply loops with no I/O at all, and then boost the priority on it under Amiga Exec to be highest. What happens to multitasking then? >The Mac and the PC would stop dead as soon as that programs window is selected >because it isn't written to multitask on those systems. Just a minor nit to pick: might be better to explicitly say, "..isn't set up to multitask on the current Mac OS or MSDOS." Otherwise, someone running Unix or OS/2 or whatever on that other hardware would certainly have reason to complain. cheers - kev