Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 18:37:24 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: root AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT Delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Prashant TR wrote: > > 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. I was referring to the type of task switching done by olden day dosshells. A test of how good a OS is how smoothly it multitasks. I don't know why windoze fails miserably in this respect as I find that even on a speedy system things like disk acessing done by a program seem to slow down the whole system to a crawl. Just see how slow starting new programs, opening menus, dialogs becomes when there is some disk usage going on. Grendel Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)