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- TaskX
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- by Steve Tibbett
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- Yessirree, folks, it's the FIRST Real-Time Interactive Task
- Editor. Not that it's much of an editor, it just lets you
- change the priority of any task running, and take a look at them all
- as they are. This is also the first such program that I've seen that
- will display all the tasks, and will not keep changing the order of
- the whole list every time it updates the display. It will
- re-create the task list whenever a task appears, disappears, or changes
- it's name, though.
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- It's supposed to be a Resident thing in the sense of when you first
- run it, it will show a list of all the tasks running with gadgets for
- changing the priority of the task, and for scrolling through the list
- (if there are more than 14 tasks). When you hit the right mouse button,
- it will shrink to the size of a title bar and remain that way until
- you hit the menu button again (with it's window selected).
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- The reason I really wrote this is because when I am using the Amiga,
- it seems that there are so many stupid programs out there that do
- not Wait() when they are waiting for something. BBS-PC being a perfect
- example (call my BBS! 613-731-3419!), although they've fixed it now,
- it used to hog the processor when it was waiting for a call. If I was
- doing word processing with it running, the word processor was really
- slowed down - so I wrote TaskX to increase or decrease task priorities
- depending on how friendly the task is.
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- CAUTION: It's pretty darn easy to lock the system up if you're not
- careful. You can change the priority of ANY task, including the
- File System, the Workbench, and the 'Input.device'. If you put the
- File System's priority below the priority of an unfriendly program that
- accesses it, you'll lock up the system. If you put the Input.device
- below any CPU hog, you'll prevent yourself from being able to type or
- move the mouse. Just be careful.
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- It's pretty simple to use, I'll let you figure it out for yourself.
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- If you like it, just be nice enough to call my BBS and upload something.
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- ...Steve Tibbett
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