but in Windows case, it does, if it is updating the GUI. the rest of Windows was updated to do pre-emptive multitasking better, but not the GUI update code. that is still single threaded in a large number of places for compatibility reasons. combine that with a badly written application that hogs the CPU and the entire system runs much less smoothly than it should. even XP's GUI still single-threads many windowing operations.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alin Flaider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: Re[3]: Pentax Laboratory Batch Conversions > What I'm saying is that a process not doing context switch often > enough doesn't impact other applications responsiveness but its own.
