Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!littlei!omepd!hah
From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A proposal for DOS 1.4
Message-ID: <2716@omepd>
Date: 18 Jan 88 01:06:37 GMT
Sender: news@omepd
Reply-To: hah@mipon3.UUCP (Hans Hansen)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
Lines: 29
Keywords: DOS1.4 priority
Summary: Automatic priority adjust on changing current windows and screens.

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	Just a thought!  Have Exec alter the task priority by a given amount,
with sanity check, that can be entered at any time by the user, when ever
then active window or screen are changed.

	How I see it would work:  A new command (ChActivPri) is created
and takes one argument.  The argument is checked for SANE input and
understands negitive numbers.  Numbers outside ofthe sane range are accepted
but are limited to the sanity min/max values.  A value of 0 would be the same
as not calling the program in the first place, used to reset it.  As the user
changes from screen to screen the task priorities for the old screen's tasks
are returned to normal and the task priorities for the now current screen's
tasks are adjusted by the value of ChActivPri.

	Why?  Well after showing off my favorite computer running all of those
nifty demos, yah at the same time, and getting about 20 of them running and
then TRYING to either move one or resize it... well the demos some how just
run out of steam...

	Even more important it means that if you are running more than four
programs that are CPU intensive that the current screen/window will always be
be given SNAPPY service.

	PROBLEM:  This will require improved Resource Tracking.  Well you were
going to implement that anyway right?!!


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