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echo: os2prog
to: IVAN TODOROSKI
from: Mario Semo
date: 1998-11-21 13:02:18
subject: the PM message queue

Hallo IVAN!

Antwort auf eine Message von IVAN TODOROSKI an ALL:

 IT>   Only the user input is blocked, while the rest of the programs run  
 IT> totaly unhindered. I think it is very sad that for all that they did,  
 IT> the designers of OS/2 didn's pay attention to this little detail.

 IT>   A mis-behaving application can (and does) sometimes even block the
 IT> PM   in this way, if it dies or hangs in middle of its message
 IT> processing.

yes. we all know this since 1988. and? first IBM said they will implement a
workaround as the implemented OS/ 2.0, then they said "no, with
WARP3", and with WARP 4 they shipped a way to kill misbehaved
applications. 

this feature is not important enough for IBM. 

when YOU write an application, then simple write it accoring to the 10ms rule. 

Servus, Mario!

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