Re: GNO questions...

[gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a SIMMS,WILLIAM SHELDON)]

In article <C5sLAE.BGA@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>Amiga also use preemptive, whereas the Mac MultiFinder, PC Windows 3, and GS
>The Manager all use cooperative or 'fake' multitasking).
                                    ^^^^^^

'Fake' is not the right word. Cooperative multitasking (a la System 7)
dosen't ensure equal distribution of processor time to the various processes,
but it's not fake, especially since every call to getNextEvent or
waitNextEvent can result in a context switch. Something I do often is
download stuff, print, and play a video game all at the same time, that's
not too fake.


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