Re: some more BSD issues

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.comREMOVE)
Date: 11/29/03


Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:25:01 GMT

In article <1070083514.846525@juju.bsn>, _ <_@_._> wrote:
>hannibal wrote:

>> Also, why can I burn a cd, listen to xmms, surf the net with FreeBSd
>> and with Windows when the cd writer is burning something everything
>> gets dead slow?

>Short answer is "better system resource allocation". The writing s/w
>on Windows may be doing things to make it worse for the rest of the
>system to work around certain issues in Windows that often causes
>real-time operations such as CD burning to fail (even shorter answer
>"Windows sucks at certain things").

Or - Unix systems have always supported multi-task operations with
large user environments - while MS systems evolved from single user
systems which only knew how to do one thing at a time.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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