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Article #1531Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Aaron Bergman
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:07
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:07
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Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote: : fyock@mathworks.com (Lee Fyock) wrote: : > : >> It means that other tasks are : >> truly running whether or not my program yields. : > : >That's "pre-emptive" "multitasking". : > : Multitasking == pre-emptive multitasking. : I am unwilling to accept some marketing manager's definition of multitasking. I do not believe that cooperative multitasking is a term invented by marketer. I'd guess that if you looked in comp. sci. journals, you'd see it before the IBM PC or the Mac even existed (someone please correct me if I am wrong.) Aaron -- -------- Aaron Bergman -- abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu <http://minerva.cis.yale.edu/~abergman/abergman.html> --A flag burning amendment would burn the flag--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.ycc.yale.edu!abergman From: abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Aaron Bergman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Date: 23 Aug 1995 18:07:00 GMT Organization: Yale University Message-ID: <41fqo4$br3@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <415knt$al0@steel.interlog.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950820025750.2150B-100000@nova.gmi.edu> <418hv3$451@steel.interlog.com> <41d4a5INNgj0@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <fyock-2308950935260001@144.212.1.78> <41fno9$bpg@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.cis.yale.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]