Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Ah, I see. (Why the heck is it called "nice" then?)

  Because when you write "nice program" in unix, it will start the program
at a lower priority, so that it will act nicer (ie. consume less resources).

  This comes from the principle that unix is a multiuser system, and one
user hogging all the CPU is not nice, so it was always recommended to
start long-running CPU-heavy programs with "nice".

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                                                          - Warp

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