Re: GNO questions...

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <93961@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a SIMMS,WILLIAM SHELDON) writes:
>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.