Posted by bert hubert Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:14:00 GMT Ok, I’m
going to lecture a bit, a bad habit of mine. The summary is that
an important enhancement of the Linux kernel has been proposed,
but in order to understand the significance of this enhancement,
you need a lot of theory, which follows below. I use the word
“computer” sometimes when I properly mean “the operating
system”. This exposes a problem of this post, I’m trying to
explain something deeply theoretical to a general audience.
Perhaps it didn’t work. See for yourself. Doing many things at
once People generally tend not to be very good at doing many
thing at once, and surprisingly, computers are not much
different in this respect. First about human beings. We can do
one thing at a time, reasonably well. There are people that
claim they can multi-task, but if you look into it, that
generally means doing one thing that is really simple, while
simultaneously talking on the phone. This is exemplified by how
we answer a second phone call, ie, by saying “