Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <17685@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 Jan 91 19:32:03 GMT References: <17210@cbmvax.commodore. <11721@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jan16.061816.15522@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <42624@ut-emx.uucp> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 In article <42624@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: >You're telling me that THEORETICALLY the design is a problem. I reply that >IN PRACTICE, I don't encounter the problem. I've been downloading more than >usual and playing games in the foreground just to test some of these objections. >I have yet to lose a file and we're talking hourlong downloads. OK, here's a practical use: On the Amiga I often stop text from scrolling in the active window by holding onto the right mouse button; this locks the layers for the window, and scrolling stops, and I read the text. When I'm ready, I let up on the button; multitasking continues, even though I'm hanging onto the menu button. Just printing to the current screen stops. (I generally do this on BIX, start going through a conference with a READ CURR TO LAS and pause with the mouse; sure, I could use the keyboard if I wanted) It's not a great example, but its sure a practical one :-) andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.