Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: priorities (was Re: (none)) Message-ID: <6750@cup.portal.com> Date: 22 Jun 88 07:21:36 GMT References: <1814@van-bc.UUCP> <128@quintus.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 The filesystem runs at priority 10, the trackdisk.device runs at priority 5. If you NEED to know the wall-clock time every second, visit your nearest Far East Import Car Dealer, take a test drive, and get a free digital watch. Or for $1 buy one of those circular stick-on digital clocks and affix it to one corner of your monitor's case. Though the Amiga is a fine multi-tasking system, overburdening it with excessive tasks will cause it to reach a performance "knee" at which it appears to stop.