Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? Message-ID: <8708200025.AA10028@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cogsci.8708200025.AA10028 Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 06:03:41 EDT References: <6565@eddie.MIT.EDU> <2742@hoptoad.uucp> <3638@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2758@hoptoad.uucp> <4537@videovax.Tek.COM> <20164@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley Lines: 14 Xref: mnetor comp.sys.mac:5739 comp.sys.amiga:7572 In article <20164@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> typed: ) ) [With virtual memory] The interactive job must be retrieved from ) the paging disk, and the user has to wait for that disk ) before his clicks are responded to. On a Sun 3/50 running X and Unix, ) [clicking] on a different ) window can mean a pause of as much as 3 or 4 seconds before the new ) window is ready to listen to key-strokes (Until it is ready, X will ) send the keystrokes to the old active window.) Intuition (The Amiga User Interface) is structured such that switch would be instant, if the program can't yet respond the events will be queued for it. Not a problem for either of the systems in this discussion.