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Old 01-21-2012, 05:36 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Marrko View Post
In theory "you dont have to load (wait time)". But in practice it all depend on the true technical mechanism of "multitasking". It is not for granted that performance of it in such a special architecture like ereader with limited resources will be not poor.
Oh, please. Today's ereaders have much faster CPUs and much more memory than engineering and scientific workstations from 20 years ago. Although those workstations were much slower than computers today, they did real multitasking just fine. The resources required for the mere task switching being discussed here are well within those provided by ereaders and the linux kernel. Even the 1984 macintosh with 128KB RAM (2000 times less) could task switch.
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