Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Linh Dang
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:26

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Aaron Bergman (abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu) wrote:
: 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,

I THINK the term "multitasking" is invented bye marketer. Techies
describe their system as "time-sharing", IM very HO.

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L.D.



: you'd see it before the IBM PC or the Mac even existed (someone
: please correct me if I am wrong.)

: Aaron

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 23 Aug 1995 19:26:29 GMT
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