Pete wrote:
>
> I concede to all that pushing technology to unanticipated feats costs
> speed. That said, if one were to check the hypothetical "multitask" box,
> would it be possible to create, oh say, five CORE.EXE's at startup?
> ...I use a 486SX. If I cared about top speed performance, I would buy
> a newer old comp ;-)
Not even only two if you wanted them to run "simultaneously".
They would both have to be in low memory at the same time.
If, however, memory images and register states were swapped out - either
on demand or periodically, (task switcher mode) then yes, but why the heck
would anyone want that ? It would be creeping slow and I can't see how it
might do anything in parallel that a SINGLE Arachne couldn't do in series.
That single Arachne would SEEM blazingly fast on computer "x" even if it
took the same total time to do the 5 jobs. The "5" swapper on that "x"
would make me so mad I might have a stroke. <G>
IMO.oc.
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