[News] Cloanto critisize AmigaXL marketing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Nov-2001 01:16 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 82 comments View flat View list |
Cloanto stated their opinion about AmigaXL marketing, which they feel has been misleading. They also released a comparison of Amiga Forever and "other solutions".
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Cloanto critisize AmigaXL marketing : Comment 41 of 82 | ANN.lu |
Posted by tinman on 29-Nov-2001 16:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (JW): > Multitasking now means to do one thing after the other
> just with a high speed CPU so it looks to the user as
> it is done at the same time.
Yes (although I wouldn't call 7MHz 68000 a fast CPU ;). Multitasking just means to run multiple tasks by time slicing the availability of the CPU to make it look like they are running at the same time (and it always has hasn't it?). How else do you expect a single CPU which generally have single execution chains to run more than one thing at a time? Anyway, humans are too slow to multitask faster than a processor.
Multiprocessing (and multithreading at a similarly different level) on the other hand would be running multiple tasks on multiple processors all at the same time. |
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