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From: DAVEA%CERNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (David Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Multiprocessing-Multitasking
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Date: 9 Apr 89 19:55:53 GMT
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> In that the amiga has dedicated processers for graphics etc it is, to some
> degree multitasking, but not in any sophisticated, scheduled sense.

>>>Do you write for BYTE, by any chance?  That's dead wrong, on every account.

>>>The Amiga is FULLY multitasking, in the sense that the processor is time
>>>sliced among many processes.  Much in the same vein as UNIX, OS/9, Aegis,
>>>VMS, etc.

  No, if I did the sales would soar. What I meant to say, and not wishing
to burn precious space, is that the though the Amiga is multitaskingfor
all the reasions you outlined is not fully multitasking beause there
is no scheduler which controls overall running of tasks. So that it
would no how much spare capacity exists on each intelligent processing
device, as it processes, and thus be able to dispatch the next processing
task in the most efficent manner.


  Now I know the Amiga is good, but its not that good .... nes pa


  ....... Dave