As I recall, 200 was the default quantum on a vax 780 20 years ago.
Even 10 years ago, interactive response could be sped up a lot by
cranking quantum down to single digits.

At 11:28 PM 10/30/2001 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:00:07PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>which are much shorter than the minimum timeslice (which is 
>>typically of the order of 200 ms).
>
>200ms? Wouldn't this be an error? I can't really imagine that one would
>typically have only five time slices per second :-)
>
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