Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...) Message-ID: <1991May15.113621.22300@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 15 May 91 11:36:21 GMT References: <11719@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jan16.015035.10356@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991May10.010449.11340@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 16 In article <1991May10.010449.11340@milton.u.washington.edu> stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes: > of us. Larry's point was that during the course of a typical application, the > event loop is tripped through frequently enough for cooperative multitasking > to proceed smoothly. But it isn't. Observed behaviour: a Mac II (which certainly has the Amiga 1000 beat on horsepower) just doesn't run smoothly compared to the older Amigas. > An event loop in the midst of a computation intensive routine is no big deal, > and a standard part of a responsive, well-behaved application. Yes it is a big deal, and no it's not a standard part of any such thing. It's just something that Apple programmers have to do to keep the faith. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .