From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0224dc3d1e52f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Streams and Concurrency Date: 1999/01/01 Message-ID: <76hqps$59p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 427654577 References: <76dhm3$rkq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76g0nu$nsq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76g9jh$us1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <76gecs$2sq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x10.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.71.29 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 01 06:43:07 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <76gecs$2sq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > True. Of course if we move our system to a dual Pentium > architecture, that won't help. Folks here may want to > dismiss that as an odball setup, but your > days of being able to do that are numbered. This is a misunderstanding. Time slicing is STILL not allowed in a multi-processor environment, and the ceiling priority protocol guarantees that a protected operation cannot be interrupted by another higher priority task attempting to enter the protected region, even in the multi-processing case. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own