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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 28 Dec 1994 03:28:56 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.94Dec27212856@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In-reply-to: "Dameon D. Welch"'s message of 24 Dec 1994 11:35:02 GMT
In article <3dh116$frs@hustle.rahul.net> "Dameon D. Welch" <dwelch@rahul.net> writes:
In article <3d6o4n$k2q@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Kenneth J. Hoover <ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu> wrote:
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|>3. We have a number of identical dual-boot pentiums with Windows NT 3.5
|Excuse me? Have you ever heard of "multitasking"? You must, since you run
|unix. How about doing it the way all the windoze users in the world do --
|start a program, ICONIFY IT, and go about your work. Start another program.
|Telnet wherever you want, read your mail, defend an OS on usenet, and when
|you feel like it double-click on your icon to see if you're done compiling
|yet. That's not so hard, is it? and I don't even have to teach the user
|anything they didn't know under Windoze.
I think it's an issue of whether you like how Winblows multitasks or
how Unix multtasks. I think most of us Unix heads have decided we
prefer Unix multitasking over Windog or MacOS multitasking. In Unix
(generally), you can put a process in the background and expect a
reasonable amount of CPU time to be given to the background process.
In Winblows or MacOS, you can't expect this to be the case.
I think you're confused. Windows NT is nothing like the Mac OS or
Windows 3.x. Windows NT is a full-blown multi-tasking
multi-processing demand-paged protected-mode operating system, just
like unix. Windows NT is nothing like the cooperative-multitasking in
MacOS and/or Windows 3.x.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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