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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: DSP docs
Message-ID: <1991May6.064208.1590@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 06:42:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.192921.9046@hardy.u.washington.edu>
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In article <1991Apr24.192921.9046@hardy.u.washington.edu> jjb@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Jim Black) writes:
>Also, some information about how it/we handles/supprts multitask/multithreaded 
>concurrent usage.

   It doesn't. This isn't a bug; it's a feature: it allows the DSP to
be used for realtime tasks, since it never gets preempted or rescheduled.
Of course, only one application can be using it at a time ... 



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