dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) (06/03/91)
Just what is different about how the "new" Process Manager and the old MultiFinder handle multitasking? I read in BYTE that each application is given a 64-bit ID number. Does that mean Sys7 will run up to about 18.5 quintillion programs?! :-)
marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty) (06/03/91)
In article <15@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >Just what is different about how the "new" Process Manager and the old >MultiFinder handle multitasking? I read in BYTE that each application >is given a 64-bit ID number. Does that mean Sys7 will run up to about >18.5 quintillion programs?! :-) There are undocumented special bits in this 64-bits ID number (Process Serial Number). My guess is that only 32 bits are used for the processes count, so that System 7 will run only 4.2 billion processes at a time :-) -- e+ ----> :-) <---- e- e-mail : Les Chercheurs de Bosons Unifies marty@cernvax.cern.ch
john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) (06/04/91)
In article <5528@cernvax.cern.ch> marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty) writes: > In article <15@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: > > Just what is different about how the "new" Process Manager and the old > > MultiFinder handle multitasking? > There are undocumented special bits in this 64-bits ID number > (Process Serial Number). My guess is that only 32 bits are used > for the processes count, so that System 7 will run only 4.2 billion > processes at a time :-) Oh damn! And my IIsi manual claims that it will run 5 billion processes at once. I should have waited for 64-bit clean ROMs.... -john- -- ============================================================================= John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications, Ltd. ...uunet!tcnet!newave!john