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But that is the point. The hardware does;t knwo the difference in the complexity, but the OS does. It comes down to how an OS is designed to handle certain things. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:19 PM Subject: RE: subject: iSeries Legends > Interesting. I wonder if from the computer's point of view there is such > a thing as a complex vs. a simple task? IOW, does the computer know it is > doing something complex vs. something simple? I doubt it. Whether it is > dedicating substantial resources to something we perceive as simple or > complex it is all just 1's and 0's to the computer. So the complexity of > the task makes no difference.
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