multitasking

New 32-bit multitasking DOS now available for download
TacitR tac...@aol.com comp sys mac apps Just wondering which type of multitasking does MacOS and Windoze uses? Are they using cooperative or time-slicing? MacOS up to and including MacOS 9 uses cooperative multitasking. Windows uses preemptive multitasking. MacOS X uses preemptive multitasking with protected memory

MacOS w/o pre-emptive multitasking poor for multi-CPU machine?
Joe Ragosta jrago...@dca.net comp sys mac system In article <barrett-1208960220560...@news.netins.net>, barr...@netins.net wrote: One of the things that angers me about Apple is that they so often act like preemptive multitasking is a new piece of OS technology, and that a powerful CPU is needed to implement it.

Gobbacci multitasking....
Tom Elam te...@iquest.net comp sys mac advocacy On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:00:21 -0800, pa...@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Paxon Hou) wrote: In Apple's April 1996 "Why Do People Prefer Macintosh" brochure, there was a testimonial from one person who stated that on the Macintosh, "Easy to use, cooperative multitasking is

Gobbacci multitasking....
Alexandre AS asi...@usa.net comp sys mac system In article <4btm-1205991302520...@1cust195.tnt3.santa-monica.ca.da.uu.net>, 4...@gte.net (Brian Muldoon) wrote: It's true that MOSR has been hypeing the 'nanokernal' but every other review of 8.6 also mentioned the addition of multitasking.

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Eos nonnoNOS...@rubentus.it it discussioni litigi it sport calcio Il Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:37:47 GMT, Gobbacci ha scritto: utilizzo le pipeline. Getto robusto ed in pressione eh? Un po' ti invidio. -- Allah Akhbar.

Rendezvous Multitasking?
Bluff Bl...@poker.com it discussioni litigi it sport calcio Gobbacci wrote: "cyb" <strange_th...@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio http://groups.google.it/group/it.sport.calcio/msg/8727dafffd8702ee Embe? Li c'e' solo l'imprecisione (evidente distrazione) che "batti fantozzi" è seconda persona e non terza

Gobbacci multitasking....
Peter da Silva pe...@abbnm.com comp sys handhelds In article <mBQw6.58236$g63. 8133...@nnrp3.clara.net>, Dr. Panos Asproulis <panosasproulis(nospam)@freeuk.com> wrote: If I recall correctly, the Intel 80286 was also capable of doing some kind of multitasking but nobody cared to use this feature.

Atheists, read this.
Hello: I would like to know if there is any multitasking Forth definition and any Forth supports it. Which words handle the multitasking? I've been looking for it but I was not able to find any reference. There is not a multitasking standard for Forth, although many implementations support multitasking (including

Win9x Multitasking Revisited
frick fr...@despammed.com it discussioni litigi it sport calcio Gobbacci ha scritto: "adamski" <ilgrandelo...@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:4z2rbfhjmcej$.1hedkkdvz7ngi$.dlg@40tude.net... Il Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:37:47 GMT, Gobbacci ha scritto: colluttorio? Curiosit?. In quanti avete mai notato che su tutte

Gobbacci multitasking....
dapil dapi...@hotmail.it it discussioni litigi it sport calcio On 11 Feb, 20:11, "Gobbacci" <qui_gobba...@tiscali.it> wrote: E sentiamo... secondo te ha piu' valore quello che riportawww.bellacopia.com oppure i dizionari della lingua italiana? Prima cosa: ho citato quel sito perchè da la forma etimologica corretta

Taking control of multitasking.
You're the one making the argument; it's up to you to support it. true power multitasking, "Power" multitasking? Your venacular is curious. Anyway, Windows is a true multi-threaded multi-tasking OS. You have no idea what you are dealing with. *Windows is a true multi-threaded multi-tasking OS*.

Gobbacci multitasking....
Jeremy CB Nicoll Jer...@omba.demon.co.uk comp sys acorn misc In article <1f24a1b2.0108041611.22b83...@posting.google.com>, Lorenzo J. Lucchini <ljl...@tiscalinet.it> wrote: Now, why do I have a problem with co-operative multitasking? 1) An application has to "pass the game" back to the operating system,

Help with Mega4 and Multitasking/internet
Vincent Lefevre vincent+n...@vinc17.org comp sys acorn misc In article <1f24a1b2.0108041611.22b83...@posting.google.com>, Lorenzo J. Lucchini <ljl...@tiscalinet.it> wrote: 1) An application has to "pass the game" back to the operating system, in order for multitasking to work. This means the programmer has to

"Real" Multitasking (Re: GNO questions...)
Jeff Richards JRich...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 apps You can't stop Windows multitasking, but you can stop other applications from forcing Windows to change tasks. From your description it appears that you want to have other tasks loaded and perhaps even active while the serial communication is occurring.

New 32-bit multitasking DOS now available for download
Richard Norman rsnor...@mediaone.net alt os development comp os ms-windows programmer win32 I am sorry to say that there is a lot of misinformation about what pre-emptive multitasking requires. People dealing with embedded systems have long used specialized pre-emptive multitasking systems on rather limited CPU's,

Gobbacci multitasking....
Gobbacci qui_gobba...@tiscali.it it discussioni litigi it sport calcio "Sam" <pr...@microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:jHVsj.30386$Xg7.8907@tornado.fastwebnet.it... "Gobbacci" <qui_gobba...@tiscali.it> wrote: E vabbe' ma poco che ho avuto la fortuna d'interagire mi è bastato per capire le tue grandi

8.6 Multitasking
Joern Plewka j_ple...@people-s.people.de comp sys amiga misc comp sys amiga hardware jam...@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur) -> "Multitasking Query." (29.08.1995) A simple couple questions which are sort of Amiga related. I`ve been having a very heated discussion with a mate over how Windows multitasks.

. simtel/msdos multitasking
Loren Petrich petr...@netcom.com comp sys mac advocacy One net.mac.critic recently insinuated that Macintosh lovers think that cooperative multitasking is absolutely *great*. I don't see too much evidence of that, and that is not true of me, certainly. As someone who does a lot of programming,

Leave Tommyboy Newton alone
In a true multitasking environment waiting for keystrokes does not involve busy waiting. The feel to the user is completely different. The system that truly multitasks responds much more quickly. The non-multitasking systems that do timeslicing respond sluggishly because of the wasted CPU cycles.

Q: Cooperative vs Preemptive Multitasking?
adamski ilgrandelo...@gmail.com it discussioni litigi it sport calcio Il Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:37:47 GMT, Gobbacci ha scritto: colluttorio? Curiosità. In quanti avete mai notato che su tutte le confezioni di tutti i collutori in realtà c'è scritto "collutorio" e non "colluttorio"?