Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments View flat View list |
Things have been pretty slow behind the scenes at ANN. I still worked most of January 2001 and the past two weeks of February, so my free time was limited. My PC seems to be working okay now, but my dialup has been very unreliable and painfully slow (how many errors are normal in W2k's dialup status window? So far I have 143 for less than 200k transferred...). The DSL line is supposedly being installed "in a few weeks". Sounds oddly familiar. I finally found an Amiga sponsor again, so that my phone costs are almost covered. Thanks also to the individuals who offered donations - sorry I didn't get back to you - but I'm always reluctant to accept individual donations for a number of reasons I won't go into since space is limited. :) To wrap up this MOTD, I'm trying once more to find one or more reliable contributors to do a bit of moderation and article posting. Please apply via email.
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Posted by Mark Olsen on 12-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Anonymous): >>Why not?
>>Move the window around, the system stops everything else just to move the
>>window. Same thing happens when you scroll the browser.
>It's the same on AmigaOS, would you rather the system waited a bit before it decided to move your window? Then you'd still be saying exactly the same as this:
Nope, in Windows it stops everything else while it moves the window, all the graphics code is in kernelspace. With AmigaOS, everything except the task scheduler is in userspace, one task can interrupt the other, so even though I'm moving 15034 windows at once, my serial port will NOT drop packets, as it gets all the CPU time it needs. |
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