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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: difference between 7.0 and amiga multitasking
Message-ID: <69@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 05:07:56 GMT
References: <330863744000293E@FANDM> <65@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun18.181924.23875@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

">You're wrong. There's nothing special about the frontmost app. The OS only
>gives the frontmost app more processing power because it has to do user
>I/O. It doesn't have any more control than any other program.
 
 No, there is definately something special about the front most app.
It can control the CPU for a long as possible."

No, you're wrong. ANY application, background or foreground, can control
the CPU as long as it wants! :-)  If background apps didn't have control
over how much CPU time they get, it would be a lot closer to preemptive
multitasking.