On Wed, Jul 26, 2000, Eli Brandt wrote: > Karl W. MacMillan wrote: > (Benno wrote:) [...] > > (My understanding, though I'm not a Mac person, is that MacOS (pre-X) > should not be conjoined-with-a-slash to Windows (post-3.1) because > one's not preemptive and the other is.) You're right, the MacOS situation is a little more complicated. Fundamentally, it's co-operative multitasking (although the MP versions did have a pre-emptive threads lib - and it can be used for UP). I don't recall seeing any actual figures (but I've not looked either). I think that the sentiment (without putting words into Benno's mouth) is that, e.g. on my G4 + MacOS9 I can achieve 6ms throughput latency (Sonorus) whilst doing a live recording and using compression on N channels & several effects plugs... This is not a terribly scientific measure - but it *is* a practical, useful & (in spite of the out-of-date-press) reliable platform for studio work... this is what we are trying to achieve with Linux. Iain.
