Well hopefully the multi-cores are true multi-taskers and you're
getting the time savings you thing you are. You are definitely wasting
time with the swapping function on single core CPUs. Its faster in
single cores to just complete one task at a time, let a routines
finish before starting another
As far as I know mice are polled and not interrupt driven on Intel
boxes. Its always been a performance turkey for the boxes. When mice
first became popular many Intel boxes only had 8 hardware interrupts,
XTs. ATs 286 got an additional 8 but one of the first 8 had to be
used to chain to the sec
Experience has given me a preference for low-level machine compilable
languages Assembler and like the various flavors of C. I don't like
languages like JAVA that ride a non-machine specific protocol and ride
atop emulators or interpreters on top a browser on top an OS on top
sophisticated hardwar
Its the startup bios that supports boot mode. once they move from legacy to
UEFI your older mbr drives will not boot.
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I'd guess that, even with UEFI replacing legacy BIOS, bootable USB sticks
with MBR partitioning will still be bootable, subject to the underlyimg OS
being otherwise compatible
Excerpt from Rugxulo:
> DOS on modern IBM PC clones have too many hardware compatibility
> issues: power management, lack of networking (almost no packet
> drivers), no soundcard drivers (or even static libs), almost no USB
> support. It doesn't look like most hardware companies care enough to
>
