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Article #1545Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Jim Williams
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:23
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:23
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abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Aaron Bergman) wrote: > >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.) > I don't think I still have any of my old textbooks -- early 70s. Anyone out there have an old text on building a timeshaing system? One thing I do remember well is the process ring we used at my first job. The scheduler was three lines long (in assembly) and we certainly didn't call it a multitasking system. (It was *real* efficient, but the only rule in using it was "know exactly what you are doing.") -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> 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... Date: 23 Aug 1995 19:23:07 GMT Organization: Elision Message-ID: <41fv6r$e7j@sundog.tiac.net> 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> <41fqo4$br3@news.ycc.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)