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thus spake Bengt Kleberg in comp.os.misc...

. : So why do you require preemptive multitasking?

. To avoid that one process can lock up my computer and force me to reboot
. to get control back again.

i think the aim in the oberon model is that if that does happen to
you, it'll teach you not to write your programs like that in future.
remember its target audience. |:>

seriously, though - there's much less risk of this happening, as
"processes" are just parameterless procedures called from the event
loop.  if the procedure ends, the process doesn't lock up the system.
and since procedures are meant to be small and modular, the conditions
under which they might potentially go off for ever should be clearly
visible.  the ideal paradigm is a set of exported procedures per
module, each of which does one thing with the pieces it is given and
then returns.
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