[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 42 of 82 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Graham on 29-Nov-2001 16:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 41 (tinman): There are, of course, different types of multitasking. Preemptive (as with the Amiga, BeOS, MacOSX and countless others over the last 20 years or so) which allows the kernel to decide to interrupt another applications running (even the kernel) in order to be processed (e.g., as a result of an interrupt, or the kernel deciding that the currently running application has had enough time already). The next application to be run can be decided by simple round-robin, or by application priority levels, etc (of course, avoiding starvation of low-priority applications) from a list of runnable applications (not blocked on IO).
Cooperative (Win 3.1 and below, Mac OS 9 and below) put the onus on the application to be nice and tell the OS when it can stop running. i.e., not very good in comparison with the above.
Yes, the above is simplified. |
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