Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 00:01:57 +0200
On onsdag, juli 4, 2001, at 11:36 , Jorge Salvador Caffarena wrote:
Well I do not think it is a "killer-app" feature. I think it will be
95% of the time useless, and it is just another marketing feature.
You think it is a marketing feature, I most certainly don't - always
interesting when you have completely opposite opinions, don't you think?
Imagine Dad is working with the PC with XP, he begin burning a CD. It
is going to take a while, so he thinks "hey lets use this wonderfull
feature of XP and let the kiddie play with my PC". So the kiddie logs,
he lurks around HL for example, dl a cool looking game disk image, and
begin to burn the game to the CD. I bet a Bluescreen Of Death may
happen :-). Or even better he begin playing a game, say Quake III, and
in the heart of the battle it eats up all the CPU, so daddy CD get a
buffer underrun.
So, because our OS might be crappy enough to not be able to concurrently
use hardware - or alert the applications that tries to access hardware
that it is busy - this is bad? I could use the same arguments for a
single user setup - what if you started to burn a CD and then started to
play Quake, all in the same user session? IMHO this is a good feature
for an OS to have - and if it forces us to update our OS to better
handle multiple users and shared resources, all the better.
Regards,
j o a r