Re: [LUG] Linux is 10 years old

["peterbunce" <peterbunce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I put your comments to the person who told me about multitasking /
multithreading
he replied :-


"As far as linux is conerned it's a toy. Unix is a different matter, Unix is
multi threaded but does not multitask like os/2. in fact OS/2 is still about
10-20 years ahead with object orientated multitasking. eg if linux or unix
had a program that crashed badly the whole system freezes. OS/2 just closes
that virtual machine.

anyway draw your own conclusions."

regards peter bunce





----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Still" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Linux is 10 years old


> > peterbunce wrote:
> > >
> > > no ms software is  nor, sorry to say, is any flavor of linux
>
> Linux *is* multitasking and multithreaded.  There are even kernel threads.
>
> Linux does *not* do pre-emptive multitasking.  In fact, very few general
> purpose OSes do - Solaris is one of them and I forget the other.
> Pre-emptive multitasking is the domain of Real Time OSes.
>
> J.
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