On 9 Jul 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Tor Lillqvist <tml@xxxxxx> writes: > > > I think what the OP really meant to ask whether GIMP requires a > > *pre-emptively* multitasking OS. I.e. one that can interrupt a > > running process that has exceeded its timeslice, even if it doesn't > > do any system calls (or similar) that gives the kernel a chance to > > let another process have the CPU. (For instance, Windows 3.1 wasn't > > able to do that.) As far as I can guess, sure, GIMP might work on > > such a system... > > I don't think GIMP plug-ins would work w/o proper multitasking and > using GIMP w/o plug-ins doesn't make too much sense. Hmm, I'm confident you could get it to work on a cooperative multitasking system. You might need to add a yield() into the glib loop, but no big deal. Of course, it wouldn't work *well*, but then again cooperative multitasking never does. Rockwalrus
