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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optimize Multi-Tasking with this program.
Message-ID: <1488@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 15:05:09 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1488
Posted: Fri Apr 17 15:05:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 01:30:18 EST
References: <8704140116.AA01418@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <8704140116.AA01418@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
on 'optimizing' multi-tasking:
>	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 would think anyone who wastes his time running 10 dotty windows in background
while running an edit session in foreground deserves whatever lousy response
he gets.

I for one, can't complain too much about multi-tasking optimization, I've
quite often done xmodem or kermit downloads and done other operations at
the same time with only slightly noticeable degradation in performance.
As far as I was concerned, the transfer was the most important task, and
the one I would want to optimize (as a background program) if I wanted
to do that anyway.

> 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

Ditto.

Keith Doyle
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