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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)
Message-ID: <10800@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 89 19:12:13 GMT
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In article <3205@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Huh? Why do you say that? An '030 with MMU is certainly a lot faster
>> than a PC. As the processors get faster, the system overhead becomes a
>> smaller fraction of the available horsepower.
>
>Real-time work, like Midi, is not compatible with a heavy-duty protected
>virtual memory multi-user O/S. Let's see you run Midi on a SUN.

Real-time work not compatable with multiuser VM Systems? Tell it to Masscomp.
I've been using Real Time Unix for three years. Tell it to NeXT. The NeXT
box can multitask and DSP too. It's almost the nineteen nineties. Computers
can walk and chew gum at the same time now.

Sean
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