[unios] Re: games

Pat Wendorf beholder@ican.net
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:37:47 -0500


From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@ican.net>

> > I do believe that the multitasking is important for gaming... at least the
> > action-based 3D games. Almost everybody I know has experienced the infamous
> > win95/98 jerks every 10-15 minutes when playing calculation-intensive
> > games. This seems for me to be a scheduling issue.
> >
>
> It's just an organization error. In Unix, there is also always a daemon
> running that temporaly frees unneeded physical pages. But this routine is
> quick and smart...
> Win95/98 is not.

I think the swapper should be Plugable just like the rest of the UniOS "kernel".
That way we can have swappers that are suited to different tasks.

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