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In article <41fqo4$br3@news.ycc.yale.edu>,
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,

Well, computer science does have its share of crackpots and
wannabees standing on the sidelines. Just look at this thread.

Cooperative "multitasking" is typically touched upon once in your typical
CS undergraduate OS course, and as an example of how not to do things,
at that. Some profs like to make jokes about MacOS or Windows.

I remember that in my OS class, someone mentioned DOS interrupt routines,
and the prof said "we only talk about operating systems in this class".



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