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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
Message-ID: <10625.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 22 Jan 91 23:49:29 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.231330.16290@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7553@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jan21.004720.25985@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <12880@life.ai.mit.edu> <42852@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jan21.073234.23885@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Quoted from <1991Jan21.073234.23885@Neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie):
>   With a preemptive multitasking system, you would still have the same
> problem on a heavily loaded system.  The screen saver would run to the
> end of its timeslice, then the other programs would run to the end of
> their timeslices, and you'd still get that pause in the animation
> while the other programs are running.

    Animation programs, sound programs, and comms programs doing
    downloads are more candidates for automatically moving into higher
    priority ranges.

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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