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Multitasking Mysteries Revealed
White Papers This white paper provides an overview on multitasking and describes its applicability in the real-time embedded arena.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
NEC Unveils Multitasking Set-top Chip
News Japanese electronics company NEC has unveiled a new all-in-one chip that can act as a digital video broadcast decoder and power next-generation entertainment devices that record to either a DVD or a hard disk.
[April 22, 2003, 10:55]
Increasing Multitasking Capabilities On Windows NT/2K/XP
White Papers This paper is focused on the Priority Master 2004 program running on Windows NT4/2K/XP. In this paper, the issues surrounding program prioritization at the user level and the associated performance impacts on user response time and total system...
[May 31, 2004, 1:03]
Synchronize! Pro X
Downloads Synchronize Pro X is specifically engineered for OS X, taking advantage of the modern properties of the operating system, such as pre-emptive multitasking, and supporting the full capabilities of the file system, including 255-character Unicode...
[July 24, 2008, 11:39]
PalmSource Unveils OS 6 Improvements
News PalmSource, the company behind the Palm OS handheld computer operating system, said on Monday it would launch its next major software upgrade on 29 December, with improved multitasking and graphics capabilities.
[September 22, 2003, 17:25]
Critical Specifications For Government PC Buyers
White Papers In response to the needs of agencies grappling with these issues, government users require multitasking applications more than ever, even while automatically processing other tasks in the PC's background.
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Processor Benchmarks: Intel Versus AMD
Talkback Software using threading would also have an impact on requiring multitasking. Tests that remove multitasking do not seem very valid in today's world. Whose computers are not needing to multitask all the time?
[August 25, 2004, 16:10]
Processor Benchmarks: Intel Versus AMD
Talkback Software using threading would also have an impact on requiring multitasking. Tests that remove multitasking do not seem very valid in today's world. But even when multitasking as most people do it, the computer spends more time waiting on input...
[September 23, 2004, 15:45]
Programmers: Coming Out Of The Back Room
News Jill Noble, account manager at local IT recruitment consultancy Icon Recruitment, sees programmers becoming more proficient at multitasking. He also agrees that more multitasking is now required of programmers.
[March 27, 2002, 10:16]
Use These Tips To Plan A Successful Certification Campaign
News When you've been in the work world for a few years, it's hard to get back into a studying mode, to carve out reading time in your new-crisis-every-minute schedule, and to focus on one topic when you're used to multitasking.
[March 28, 2003, 11:39]
Processor Benchmarks: Intel Versus AMD
Talkback Firstly of the three senarios shown probably the test won by the AMD's (No.2) would be most users experience in multitasking. Forthly, wouldn't it be a better comparison to show the overall impact on processing performance during multitasking?
[February 22, 2005, 10:08]
AMD's Dual-core Desktop Debut Outstrips Intel
News In multitasking tests, however, the Intel chips often edged out the equivalent AMD processors. In these tests, AMD chips outscored Intel on multitasking trials that involved games, but Intel had an advantage in tests involving Web surfing or...
[June 1, 2005, 8:55]
IBM: OS/2 Still Sold Here
News Introduced in April 1987, the OS/2 operating system was the first Intel-based modern 32-bit multitasking operating system aimed at the personal computer market. The operating system for the first Amiga computers, released in 1985, can claim the...
[December 13, 2002, 8:23]
AMD Edges Ahead Of Intel
News The multitasking tests also show an advantage for Intel's Pentium 4. However, cautioned Schmerer, with multitasking switched on, which take advantage of Intel's HyperThreading technology, the Intel chips take up the lead by 9 percent.
[August 24, 2004, 14:05]
Windows: A Family History
News This was exacerbated by Windows/386's first attempts at 'proper' multitasking, which used the 80386 chip's ability to create virtual s to let multiple copies of DOS run at once — and no worries about licences.
[November 25, 2005, 9:35]
Intel's Quad-core Chip Shines In Testing
News As this review on ZDNet UK shows, the QX6700 is a major leap in performance on multitasking and most multithreaded applications compared to high-end dual-core CPUs. But when it comes to serious multitasking — running two or three processor...
[November 3, 2006, 9:49]
Intel, MS Release 1998 PC Blueprint
News To accommodate the multitasking capability in Windows 95 and Windows NT, the guide now requires PC makers to implement a bus mastering hard drive on entry-level PCs, and SCSI hard drives on workstations.
[July 4, 1997, 9:11]
Leave Windows 9x Behind
News While DOS was a whiz kid in its heyday, it really wasn't designed to support a graphical-based user interface or the type of multitasking that Windows 9x aspires to achieve. From the beginning, the NT kernel was specifically designed to support a...
[April 2, 2003, 8:49]
OneView
Downloads Create unlimited number of application shortcuts, file and Internet links for easy access and quick multitasking. Fully featured launcher and toolbar. Hourly chime, auto logoff/shutdown, CPU usage meter, easy access to browser, email and screen...
[December 10, 2007, 21:01]
TetraEdit
Downloads A multitasking program: tabbed word processor, image viewer, thumbnail viewer, dictionary and thesaurus, RSS reader, media player, Flash player, and Internet browser (tabbed). Word processor includes global ROT4 encryption capability, instantly...
[October 18, 2006, 21:46]
