Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:103 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:102 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <1991Jan16.013321.10084@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 16 Jan 91 01:33:21 GMT References: <7504@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 > [Does Amiga multitasking work when menus are held open, windows moved, etc?] Yep, I just did a cat /etc/termcap on my terminal emulator, flopped screens, grabbed and held open a menu, flipped screens, and the listing kept coming through. I slid the terminal screen down, grabbed the screen behind, and moved some windows and the screen around; you can see the (blitter?) processor contention in a change of listing speed, but the listing kept arriving. I also hit a requestor on my terminal emulator screen by accident (grabbed the wrong screen's menu), saw the text display pause while I satisfied the requestor, then catch up in a gulp when the requestor went away; the text still was arriving through the modem, but the separate display task was paused to avoid overwriting the requestor (not, in this case a true requestor, but just a prompt in the same window); despite Mike Meyer, being able to spawn independent threads within a single program _is_ an important part of "true" multitasking. I'm really loving the Mac responses here "yes, you have to load things in the right order or they don't work; no, that doesn't make the Mac OS load order dependent"; talk about trying to bail water with a sieve! Kent, the man from xanth.