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From: jsd@boreal.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 21 Jan 91 22:17:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.205623.3867@rice.edu>, doubt@spotted.rice.edu (Douglas Benjamin Triggs) writes:
|> In article <1991Jan21.055854.14130@rice.edu>, jsd@wahoo.rice.edu (Shawn Joel
|> Dube) writes:
|> 
|> |> |>   Amiga   Time --->
|> |> |> Task A  |********        ********        ********        ********>
|> |> |> Task B  |        ********        ********        ********        >
|> |> |> 
|> |> |>   Mac   
|> |> |> Task A  |*****               **     ****** *************  **  ***>
|> |> |> Task B  |     ***************  *****      *             **  **   >
|> |> |> 
|> 

|> No, a program running under AmigaOS would not waste any time doing nothing
|> (waiting for that keypress).  It would skip that task and do the others,
|> unless the programmer is a complete idiot (which, alas, some seem to be).
|> A more accurate graph would be:
|> 
|>   Amiga   Time --->
|> Task A  |****        **                            ****        ****>
|> Task B  |    ****      ****    ****    ****    ****        ****    >
|> Task C  |        ****      ****    ****    ****        ****        >
|>                        ^ point A                 ^ point B
|> 
|> (Where task A is waiting for a keypress between points A and B.)
|> 

Now compare Doug's chart to the one above.  Which does it most look like?  I would
say that it looks mostly like the Mac's becuase each task is not getting eqaul
CPU time.  

|> 
|> Doubtfully yours,
|> --my name here--
|> 
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