From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 12: 8:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8753737B417 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:08:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fATK8Jx04316; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:08:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <02d201c17911$96cc4960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Marco Radzinschi" , References: <20011129133414.A872-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:08:18 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marco writes: > The use of a multiuser operating system is > very relevant. A multiuser operating system > must unquestionably be very well suited to > multitasking. True. UNIX also provides differentiation of user identities, though, and that is largely irrelevant in a desktop. > There is no such thing as "unitasking" anymore, > perhaps with the exception of DOS. I believe the Mac OS still has some serious constraints in that regard. Also, the consumer versions of Windows are still very poor at multitasking, and they do not preemptively multitask at all with 16-bit applications (they can't, because 16-bit applications won't run with preemptive multitasking). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message