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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question
Message-ID: <1991May16.215737.7248@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 21:57:37 GMT

In article <?iaHpry4@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> Hmmm.  1+1 != 3.  You could have the 68040 do the graphical work then
> do the calculations then do the graphical work all in the same time
> that it took the blitter to do the the graphical work and the 68030 to
> do the calculations.  In other words, the 68040 gets more work done in
> the same period of time.

And then, and then, and then...?

Haven't you heard of multitasking? Lightweight processes? Threads? I know
you know about them: you have a NeXT.

You can have one task doing calculations with the 68040 while another task
is waiting on a blit. And both tasks can be part of the same program.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
