Re: The Manager vs. SwitchIt!

[khym@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang)]

In article <C45Mty.JoD@CAM.ORG>, vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
> I see no reason why a desktop program that specifically takes advantage of
> the presence of GNO wouldn't multitask with another desktop program given
> Switch-IT!
> 
> For example, if and when I write a desktop program, I will check for GNO and,
> if it is poresent, fork() off certain long things like printing.

Probably because in general, you can't interrupt a tool call in the
middle of what it's doing and then start up another tool call and
expect things to work right... And a lot of tool calls take much
longer than the 1/60th of a second timeslice that GNO uses.
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