dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (08/23/87)
>#3. Two tasks competing for time.
#4. One big difference is the lack of an MMU and process protection on the
Amiga. Sortof the way Xerox-Parc machines work. The disadvantages are
obvious. The advantages are:
(a) Context switch (read: system call) time is nil.
(b) All messaging, signalling, and anything having to do with
interprocess communication is incredibly fast and simple,
making a multitasking kernel extremely workable.
(c) Process switch overhead is nil
-Matt