Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!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: <7590@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 23 Jan 91 13:42:29 GMT References: <1991Jan18.231330.16290@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7553@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jan21.004720.25985@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <12880@life.ai.mit.edu> <1991Jan21.072642.23587@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <1991Jan21.072642.23587@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes: > I have a word processor in the foreground, in which I'm scrolling > around, typing characters in etc, can you guarantee that it gets more > time (by setting it to a higher priority) than background tasks? Yes. > Is that handled automatically by the system (i.e. recognising interactive > tasks)? No. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .