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From: ashwin@gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram)
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Subject: Re: Turning off time slices in S7
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Date: 3 Jun 91 19:54:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: lsr@Apple.COM's message of 3 Jun 91 17:26:17 GMT

In article <13842@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>   In article <1991Jun1.070626.2853@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich) writes:
>   >
>   >OK, but what about killing live background extensions like SuperClock that
>   >aren't "launched apps" in the usual sense?  Maybe they shouldn't be "killed",
>   
>   If you've killed all other apps besides Tetris (for example), then this is
>   no different than System 6 with MultiFinder turned off.  There's no general
>   way to put these things on hold.

How about giving (settable) priorities to different tasks, like in other
multiprocessing systems?

-- Ashwin.