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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
Message-ID: <6628.27913C3A@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 15:08:44 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

Peter da Silva (peter@sugar.hackercorp.com ) wrote:

 >Funny, people in the process control industry consider UNIX 
 >daft because a low
 >priority task can still execute while there are higher 
 >priority tasks
 >executing. How about defining "real multitasking" as 
 >"real-time multitasking"?
 >At least that has a pretty good definition.

   Hunh?

   According to my last info, UNIX will only execute a low priority process if 
all active higher prio procs are in wait, and the low-prio proc should be 
interrupted if the wait condition for a higher prio proc is satisfied.
 

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