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From: gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here!  READ THIS, you'll be impressed
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Date: 24 Apr 91 03:26:47 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.043548.13530@rti.rti.org> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes:
>
>Don't be so hard on yourself - it isn't a bad example at all.  Doug,
>you just don't know what you're talking about.  Writing communications
>software is one of the things I do for a living;  people pay me lots
>of money to get these things to talk to each other.  Doug's claims
>struck me as just blowing so much smoke, so on a whim I fired up a
>9600 baud download on the MicroVAX II class machine I was running
>on, and found it took just about 25% of the CPU.  Now the MicroVAX II
>is nowhere near a 33MHz 386 - it's probably not even the equivalent
>of a 16MHz 386SX in terms of raw CPU power;  it doesn't even have a
>memory cache.  I'm not sure offhand what the proper figure ought to
>be (most of my comm software is written for VAX machines), but 30%
>of the CPU is way too high.
>
>Properly written communications software on a modern operating system
>doesn't _have_ any "wait loops" in the sense of the traditional DOS
>busy wait polling loop - it goes to sleep waiting for an event of

  Well Bruce, windows 3.0 is NOT an OS, it is a message-passing
window manager FOR DOS!!!  By definition it is not as efficient
as a true multitasking system.  Maybe you don't know what you're
talking about :-)

P.S.  Note the smiley, it is used to indicate humour, you should learn to
use it.  Your remark in the second sentence above sounds very
condescending (net-etiquette is important...) 

>
>						Bruce C. Wright

-Phil


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