Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ragg0270 From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Real Multitasking? :) Message-ID: <1991Feb19.203410.26252@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 20:34:10 GMT References: <21294@know.pws.bull.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 77 ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: > With all this talk about "True multitasking", I thought I'd relay certain >instances in which I use the multitasking ability of my Amiga. This is mainly >in response to a posted Atari user's claim that true multitasking is for the >most part useless. > > As you can see, this is only one small aspect of what I do while I'm multi- >tasking. Several other situations bring on unique cominations as well. My >machine consists of a "stock" 500 with 1 MEG RAM, two drives, printer, and >2400 baud modem with monitor. A few tech notes: I still get 233CPS using >Zmodem and almost no slowdown in software activity. I look forward to any >messages showing how other Amiga users use their machine in multitasking >combinations. > > Tom > OK, you asked for it. Here's the output from my status command: Process 1: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: rlogin I'm logged into the computer on which I'm reading this. Process 2: stk 20000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: inet:serv/portmapd Process 3: stk 20000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: inet:serv/inetd Server stuff for ethernet board. Process 4: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: dviprint Printing a PasTeX file. Process 5: stk 20000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: inet:c/NFSc For NFS connection (Really cool!). Process 6: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: multiplot Trying to find the best way to plot some data. Process 7: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 20 Loaded as command: sys:bin/mackie Screen blanker and hotkeys. Process 8: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: clock Clock. Process 9: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: calc3.0 Handy calculator. Process 10: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: ftp To transfer this file to uxa (where I'm writing this). Process 11: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: maple Trying to do yet another integral it's probably won't be able to do. Process 12: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: artm_ntsc So I like to snoop around to see what's going on with the system. Process 13: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: status The command that produced this output. Process 14: stk 15000, gv 150, pri -1 Loaded as command: lc Process 15: stk 15000, gv 150, pri -1 Loaded as command: LC1 Compiling a program I'm working on that will allow me to view data produced by a supercomputer run. Process 15: stk 10000, gv 150, pri -2 Loaded as command: pl A program I wrote to convert NCSA hdf data into a format Multiplot can understand. (This can take forever, I wish I had something more than my 7MHz 68000). Process 16: stk 10000, gv 150, pri 0 Loaded as command: csh Actually this is just a csh shell sitting there doing nothing. Sometimes I like some of its features, although with alias and PD and SAS/C utilites, the Amiga shell almost can act like csh. (No nice pipe syntax, though :-( ) Among other processes reported by ARTM VirusX PopUpMenu Workbench, etc. This really pushes the limit of my A2000HD with 3 megs, though. In a couple of minutes, the compiler and Maple will be done with their tasks (Maple probably already is) and I'll go back to plotting my data and working on my paper (The plots will be part of the paper. It's nice to be able to flip screens and have the plot available) and quit wasting time reading newsnotes. Regards, Richard gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu