Electrolytics question

That ATI hardware sucks on all of them? Yes... I agree 100%.

No, the hardware is fine. The drivers have issues sometimes.

DOS is single-tasking. In DOS, there is only ever one program at a time executing. The currently executing program "owns" the machine. There is no "executive", there is no time slicing of CPU time. TSRs simply hook into the keyboard interrupt, and when a certain key combination is pressed, DOS passes control to the TSR. When the TSR "exits" by the user pressing ESC or whatever, control passes back to DOS. However, the TSR remains in memory. Hence TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident. When the key combo is pressed again, the TSR gets control.

Again, there is no "executive" here. DOS passed control to the TSR, and the TSR passes control back to DOS. It *looks* like multi tasking thru clever programming, but it really isn't. Whatever you were doing before is suspended while the TSR is in control, and the TSR is suspended when it hands control back to DOS.

There is nothing "giving each program time on the CPU" but the running programs themselves. If the TSR crashes, it will never return control to DOS. If another application crashes, pressing the TSR key combo will have no effect.

But the average person loses about 6.5 teeth every 10 years. I suppose that means smoking is good for dental health.

John

The drivers are written by the hardware makers. D U H !

ATI sucks. Their driver support, particularly for platforms other than windows is very poor, or at least was for years. If it is better now, it is only because they wised up a bit.

I fell in love with DesqViewX. It was among the first for the early x86 architectures to slice things up well.

Snipped other good multitasking info.

Bwuahahahah!

Cannabis is a better brand. Tobacco sucks/kills.

Cannabis is healthy.

Don't know what gave you that idea. XP, Server 2003, Home Server Vista, Server 2008, and the upcoming Windows 7 are also NT kernel.

I haven't lost 6.5 teeth in my entire (considerable) adult life, let alone the last 10 years. I don't think that I could come up with anyone in my extended family or friends, who has lost that many either. Where did this little gem of a 'fact' come from - "Dentistry for Beginners", published

Arfa

But that doesn't mean the hardware is bad. DUH! Hardware is different from software.

Yeah, I ran DesqView and DV 386 (not X) for years. I actually got X but never used it.

Where did you get that figure from ? Or was it a joke ?

I've only lost 2 'wisdom teeth' (intentionally extracted) and one other that was extracted because it was causing jaw crowding.

I've had root canal work one one molar where it hadn't been filled carefully enough and caused decay. That's got a crown. And my 2 front teeth were made 'wonky' by aforementioned crowding and these have been crowned now too.

Graham

There's no telling what dealers mix into resin to make up the weight - I usually have an allergic reaction.

The last time I tried weed that was supposedly skunk it had hardly any effect, I just don't bother anymore.

I just did the math. 20 baby teeth, 32 adult teeth, 80 year lifespan.

John

Losing your adult teeth is neither universal nor inevitable. I've lost only one of them -- due to a crack likely caused by a genetic defect. I expect to have all the rest when I die.

Been doing MTBF calculations recently?

Actually, yes. Some of our customers insist on having the silly numbers. Our actual field failure rates are generally several times better than MIL-HBK or Bellcore calculated values. Unless there's a real problem, in which case it's worse until we fix it.

You might as weigh it and apply a FITS/gram factor.

John

I lost four wisdom teeth, all at once.

John

I had all four of mine extracted in 1970. But the deliberate extraction of commonly impacted teeth is not a "loss".