In a message of 03-01-1997, Elliott Goodman wrote re: Textmode
Email Client
EG> ack so programs can access it correctly? That seems to be the
EG> problem. Any ideas?
EG> 
DC> Once the IP stack is loaded you can manually start as many things as
 
EG> Sounds pretty good but the system will slow down as each
EG> program accesses the stack and uses CPU cycles, won't it? The
EG> advantage has to decrease rapidly, I'd think.
The system doesn't slow much, but because of the limited
bandwidth of the network connection the throughput of any single
task on that connection may eventually suffer.  Because each task
is separate from the others, when one task is idle (because the
remote hasn't sent the next packet, for example) the other tasks
can fill in the void.  As a result, the overall throughput on the
connection may actually be higher than running a single task at a
time because less time is wasted waiting for the remote machine to
send the next packet.
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