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On Saturday 24 August 2002 00:09, you wrote:
Yes. There is also non-preemptive (or cooperative) multitasking. There is no scheduler since each task will run until it decides it can give up the cpu - the advantage is less overhead, but has the obvious disadvantage that other processes could hang up if a process runs for a long time on the cpu! As far as I know this is what Windows uses.
Windows 3 and 9 use cooperative multi-tasking. Windows NT uses pre-emptive multitasking -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.