Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:21:49 -0500 (EST) | From | Tyson D Sawyer <> | Subject | Re: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"? |
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> > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Michael Nelson wrote: > > > >No. Cooperative multitasking is a severely broken method, which as far > > >as I know is only used by M$ WinDog. Trusting the applications to > > >multitask was stupid when M$ started to use it, and the people who have > > >created and now maintain Linux would never use such a bad multitasking > > >method. > > > > Actually, it's also used by Novell Netware. In certain situations, it > > can be put to good use. > > In theory. But, at least in the implementation used in MS Windows, the > applications often did not properly give up their lock on the processor, > even if they weren't using CPU time. Maybe Novell did it better, but M$ > screwed it up pretty badly, IMHO. > > Derrik Pates > dpates@cavern.nmsu.edu
I believe that MacOS uses cooperative multitasking also.
Ty
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