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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optimize Multi-Tasking with this program.
Message-ID: <8704140116.AA01418@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 20:16:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 20:16:22 1987
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>	"Optimizing" multi-tasking by raising the current input-active
>program to the highest priority would NOT optimize multi-tasking at all,
>but would turn the Amiga into a single-tasking machine a la Switcher.
>ONLY one task could then run at a time, the currently active one.

	I think the idea was "I have several things running at once, but
would like my Amiga to pay more attention to the application who's window
I'm currently typing in (e.g. active window)"

	Assumming this is some kind of editor or something (that's waiting
most of the time), you could simply raise its priority to, say, 2.  You
certainly do not want to raise its priority above any system tasks as you
can get into lockout situations in some cases.

	That way, you can still have 10 dotty windows going in the background
and your editor *looks* like it's going full speed (At the cost of the dotty
windows), etc....

	I myself have never encountered a situation where I'd actually need
a utility like this.  On say, a VAX785 with a load of 14 and 60 users, 
perhaps, but on my lowly Amiga??? at most I have only one or two programs
that are CPU hogs, and although this makes a noticable impression when I
type in my editor, it doesn't slow it down so much to make me want to do
something so drastic.

					-Matt