Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!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: Thad and me Message-ID: <7599@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 24 Jan 91 12:27:38 GMT References: <1991Jan13.211613.7825@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <38017@cup.portal.com> <1453@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <1453@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: > Just another example of how a completely memory-resident window manager > system will always outperform a swappable window manager system. At the bottom line, user interfaces are basically a real-time problem. The more so the more complex the UI. Oh, sure, there's no hard deadline... but the longer you take the less productive the user will be. And real-time and virtual memory fit together like George Bush and Saddam Hussein. (apropos of the eternal Mac-bashing thread, cooperative multitasking hasn't been state of the art in real-time even on micros since the late '70s) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .