11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
7:24 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:42 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
I'm not sure about the OS that ran on those old Ataris, but I know that
on the Amiga OS, which had full preemptive multitasking, any task could
shut down that multitasking and grab the CPU all to itself with a single
call to the "Forbid" system call. Calling "Permit" handed the CPU back
to the scheduler.
I'm sure all hell would break loose today if modern OSs had something
like that, but it would certainly make some tasks -- like low-latency
MIDI processing -- a lot easier to implement :)
Thanks
Leigh
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Gordon JC Pearce
<gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
It's clocked at 3,400 times the speed, and is probably pushing over
10,000 times as many instructions. Surely it can sequence a semiquaver
roll without it sounding like turnips being tipped off a truck? Why the hell can't a 3.4GHz 64-bit processor
do what the 6809 in my
Ensoniq ESQ-1 can do?
its running (Windows|OSX|Linux|BSD|Solaris)
Gordon MM0YEQ
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