[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:46:21PM +0000, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:13:01PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 08:23, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > 
> > > So what does XP do if it's not multitasking?
> > 
> > A very crude and inefficient (and unreliable) task switching.
> 
> Chris,
> 
> forgive my ignorance, buy could you explain to me (or provide a link)
> why it's unlike linux kernel task switching?
> 
> given that multitasking on *nix is not simultaneous execution but the
> constant and (hopefully) efficient application of cpu resources to tasks
> to make the most of system resources (taking the task priority into account).

Chris,

just seen your reply on another branch of this thread, so forget my
confusion.

thanks,

ben.
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