Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <7540@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Jan 91 23:38:51 GMT References: <42568@ut-emx.uucp> <91015.180746MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> <42609@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jan18.050529.13101@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <42731@ut-emx.uucp> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 21 In article <42731@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: > Well, I was talking about an 8Mhz 68000 machine there. So are we. > One thing people may not > realize is that Desk Accessories on the Mac do not take up processing time > unless they've been run. And Amiga programs don't take up any processing time unles they're actively doing something. A copy of "Emacs" sitting in a background window takes up zero CPU time. Even when it's got a window open it doesn't take up CPU time until you start using it. > I have 60 DAs available and it could be 200 and still not affect the > performance of the machine materially. Well, except for the RAM they take up. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .