What are the goal of MOOSE

[Dr. Hayden]

>ANDREASA@dhhalden.no writes:
>
>If the OS is going to be multitasking, we must be able to present information
>from several tasks at a time. The need for threading will be minimized if
>the user can't work with several programs at a time.

Now, it seems to me that we can only have at most 1 process at any
given time whose logical devices are mapped on to the physical
devices.  Of course, in a graphical environment you can *see* multiple
things going on, but I don't see how we can have more than 1 window at
a time as the "foreground" window.  And, if we decide that only one
window is in the foreground at any time, then I think threading will
still be very beneficial.  In an application, for instance, I could
launch a thread to handle user I/O, another for disk files, etc.  This
acheives much better I/O overlapping, the system is more active, and
we just have better overall system concurrency.


>> =>Got to do some work.
>>    What's that? :-)
>Look in a dictionary. That's the way I learned the meaning of the word. :-)

Well hey, I'll have to check up on that sometime... (learn somethin
new every day!)

>
>Somebody is missing me at his mailing list, could you please fix it?

Oops, sorry I believe it was me.  My mailer says you're
andreasa@dhhalden.no, but your signature has .sofus in there.  Hope
you get this!

Ross Hayden
haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet