[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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Posted by Solar (BAUD) on 30-Nov-2001 06:45 GMT | Running several threads on *one* CPU, timeslice, so they *look* to be running parallel, is called multitasking.
Running several threads on *multiple* CPUs, in parallel, is called multiprocessing, or parallel computing.
Using dedicated chips (like DSPs, GPUs, or "Custom Chips") to relieve the CPU of certain tasks is *neither* multiprocessing *nor* multitasking, since none of these additional chips could run a *generic* programming thread. This approach is by no way unique to the Amiga. T&L GPUs on PCI/AGP gfx boards or the DSPs on your average PCI soundcard do just the same job, technically, as Alice, Lisa, and Paula in your A1200/A4000.
The above is common CS knowledge and terminology. No matter how loud you scream and shout won´t change the meaning of "multitasking", it only shows what kind of wannabe-"expert" you are. |
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