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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.005727.1196@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 91 00:57:27 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.231330.16290@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7553@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jan23.213736.28220@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <7609@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1991Jan23.213736.28220@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes:
>> priority).  But normally, the code to regenerate the window's view
>> (what I call an Update event) is located in the main word processor
>> task.

>A word processor would probably not be split up this way, because they don't
>tend to be compute bound. This would be more like a spreadsheet.

>Also, the display would be handled by the user-interface task. The compute
>task just updates internal tables... the display selects the portions of those
>tables the user wants to see and presents them.

  So the two tasks share the same address space/structures etc??  Do
the commercially available programs on the Amiga actually DO this?
(e.g. the WordPerfect, Advantage, or whatever the WPs, SSs and DBs
are...)

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