[sdiy] bootable linux cd

[Michael Zacherl]

Multiuser relies on multitasking.
You could strip down Linux to be single user, but not change the system 
to single tasking (rewriting it would be much more efficient).

OTOH, there are many more factors which influence performance and such.
While multitasking has great influence multiuser only little.

    HTH, Michael.

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> <daft>
> If you'll all pardon my gross niavete, I wonder why we would 
> desire a multi-user OS in the first place?  Multitasking, perhaps,
> but I don't see much use for the multi-user part.  To my
> understanding, something like a synth or an effect is application
> intensive and the more cycles that can be devoted to it the
> better.  So to me, the OS is a rather diminuitive aspect and
> something like (oh do pardon me) DOS might, in fact, be a good
> idea.  Even the time of day clock interrupt could be eliminated
> so as not to be interrupting the application.  What sort of "OS"
> is used by Nord?  If the idea is to get as much out of the CPU
> as possible, doesn't it make sense to make the appication itself
> bootable?  When you get into small program space, such as is 
> available with RAM cards of whatever sort, doesn't it make sense 
> to either eliminate or diminish the OS to a simple loader?  For 
> our musical application use, it might be best to write something 
> that is specifically optimized for this highly specialized purpose.  
> DOS might, in fact, be a good place to start experimenting because 
> it doesn't get in the way very much.  Perhaps at least "proof of 
> concept" could be accomplished therein.  Then again, it might seem
> as if what I suggest points back to using a DSP, perhaps with a 
> "side car" CPU to load it's RAM for more flexibility.
> </daft>
> 
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