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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Apr 2003.
Re: Nerd Boy, episode 368

Re: Nerd Boy, episode 368

ABCGi <abc...@codemonkey.com.au> wrote in
news:Xns935E7540964D7abcgi@61.9.128.12: 

> "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in news:b7epd7$6k0s$1@ID-
> 102694.news.dfncis.de:
>> -------------------------------------.
>> It was probably only my imagination, |
>> but these cycles seemed to come more |
>> and more often. Rather depressing... |
>> -------------------------------------'
> 
> I want a Matrix style sub plot!
> 

You could make reference to "cycle stealing" what with the missing
packet and all. 

Cycle stealing was the main frame pre-cursor to preemptive multitasking.
A device channel would "steal" a processor cycle to push data into
memory buffers. 

-- 
ATB

Charles Kincaid

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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 368
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