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

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 05:34
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Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>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.

In your good CS undergraduate course, as opposed to your typical one, there
would be more coverage, since even most preemptive systems are actually
cooperative inside the kernel.  There are very few pure preemptive systems.

--Tim Smith
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 24 Aug 1995 05:34:35 GMT
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