Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:46:02 +0500 (MVT)
From:	Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
X-Sender:	prashant_tr AT midpec DOT com
To:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT crosswinds DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.4.10.10002180745360.1430-100000@midpec.com>
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On my Pentium-233 it does take a long time to start up, but once running, it
> > can multitask much more smoothly than Win9x - I can play an mp3 and work at
> 
> Not mutiltasking it is more likely task switching. For ex just see how
> slow and chunky the multitasking becomes say when you run GCC on a large
> build and then try to open up menu's, run apps etc.

So, what's the difference b/w multitasking and task switching? They are
all the same. There can never be more than one task running at a time. The
task switching is so fast that you tend to think there are many programs
running. Multitasking is done by the scheduler which simply jumps to the
TSS selector of the task, which *is* task switching.

Maybe you meant something else.

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