Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!easy!lron From: lron@easy.hiam (Dwight Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multitasking at home (Was Reality check: ....) Message-ID: <186abe5f.ARN08a9@easy.hiam> Date: 25 Dec 90 06:18:55 GMT References: <54.27730FA6@ijcr.fidonet.org> <186801ce.ARN0872@easy.UUCP> <1990Dec24.132204.17059@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <186ab528.ARN08a6@easy.hiam> Reply-To: lron@easy.hiam Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: You must be talking about someone else. Lines: 34 Expires: Keywords: Distribution: In article <186ab528.ARN08a6@easy.hiam>, Dwight Hubbard writes: > In article <1990Dec24.132204.17059@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, Kevin Darling writes: > > 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? Same thing as would happen under Unix or OS/2 it dies. But then under Windows or Multifinder which are what I was talking about it would stop all other programs as soon as it's window was made active. The only way for it to allow multitasking under Windows on a 286 or under multifinder would be to recode the program. >>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 My mistake for not making it clearer that I was only talking about Multifinder and Windows on 286 systems. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dwight Hubbard, |-Kaneohe, Hawaii | | USENET: lron@easy.hiam or uunet!easy!lron |-GT-Power: 029/004 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------