CompuServe Messages

"That's interesting. It actually performs a little faster than Win31 on my machines. What kind of machine are you running?If you're not running NT on an advanced machine then you're right. Hang it up. It doesn't take well to 386's @ 33Mhz. FYI I'm running two Pentium 90s; one with 32 megs of RAM another with 40 megs of RAM. Some things are faster, some things are slower." I'm running a Pentium 90 32 MB RAM, if you fot stuff running fater, it must be NT specific stuff… "No it's not. Well, actually it is. If you're running a machine with only one processor you can't do "symetric multiprocessing with soft affinity." That's what multiprocessing means: multi-processors. So in a way you're right; it is only "preemptive multitasking" on your machine." Dang! I knew it, when I'm right, I'm right… Ain't I? <BG> " >> as long as you don't have to run more than one thing, its pretty >> fast too… That makes no sense. The preemptive multitasking system for NT doesn't do time slicing (giving each running app an equal amount of time) but instead schedules applications to run based on a priority level. If an application is in the foreground and running no other background processes will run until the foreground app yields (unless a background process has a higher priority)." Hmmmm, why does that remind me so much of pm? <G> (Don't answer that, just putting in 'ye old sarcasm') " Now NT is extremely responsive no matter how many apps I run (and no matter what kind)." Try something like: Being in your terminal prog and downloading stuff while doing somethinfg else, that should convince you of the "real multitasking feature"…) " >> (now wouldn't it be nice to have a 64 bit app.?) As soon as we have a 64 bit OS (and instruction set!).<g>" You ARE running a Pentium, aren't ya? <EBG> (even bigger grin…) 😉 "P.S. I presume you're running NT 3.5?" Are kidding? Of course, damn… <G> Yup that's it… Jack