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

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:01

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oconnorw@source.asset.com (Bill Oconnor) wrote:
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>
>Jim, the term "multi-tasking" was originally coined by IBM back in 1964.
>The IBM terminology more clearly defined the abilty for more than one
>task to be running asynchonously on single processor systems.  Up until
>this point others had mistakenly called this multi-processing, which we
>all know requires the use of multiple processors.

Better be carefull with the word "processors," one of the definitions
is a software module which processes a task.  :)

Figures we'd end up going back to some machine which didn't even have
a stack.  Care to hazard a guess upon what it takes to run more than
one task *asynchronously* on a single central processing unit?

>
>As I said, IBM correctly referred to this as multi-tasking.
>
>BTW, there were many systems that ran quite effectively in this mode
>back then.
>
>That's about as far back as the history books go these days.  <g>
>
>Bill Oconnor
>

-- 
Jim Williams.

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 24 Aug 1995 16:01:03 GMT
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