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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Resource manager needed.
Message-ID: <8707310021.AA20026@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 20:21:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 20:21:09 1987
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In article <1012@vu-vlsi.UUCP> cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes:
>
>...Take the following scenario... 
>...In the meantime I have a Multi-Forth window popped up.  I compile the FORTH
>program with no problems.  Then I run it.  I Wait, and wait and wait.  Darn!
>my program hung up FORTH probably a stupid endless loop.  The Multi-Forth
>now eats up huge CPU time causing my mouse pointer to become jerky and
>sluggish.  Now do I pop up another FORTH evironment and put up with a much
>slowed down 68000 or do I reboot, lose my file transfer, and the work in
>setting up my applications the way I wanted?

Neither.  You either ran the compile/development task at proirity -1,
or bumped all your other tasks up somewhat.  Depends on what crashed in
FORTH, but you will probably regain nearly %100 CPU for the use of your other
programs.
If you forgot this step, you could change the priorities of everthing else
after the fact.  (changetaskpri will do this for a CLI, nothing I know of will
do this for any task.)


>...Using the keyboard rather than the mouse should generally guarantee
>that the user can still invoke the manager even if the locked application has
>locked up the mouse pointer as well.

The mouse and keyboard input flow via nearly the same paths.  With the
exception of CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA the keyboard has little in the way of
advantage.  Of course with the mouse, there's probably nothing to point
at.



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