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  1. Path: stud.cs.uit.no!paul
  2. From: paul@stud.cs.uit.no (Paal Christian Currie)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: MultiTasking
  5. Date: 21 Feb 1996 15:18:16 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Tromsoe
  7. Distribution: world
  8. Message-ID: <4gfd3o$8e1@news.uit.no>
  9. References: <4ge1op$265@cdn_news.telecom.com.au>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: plab01.cs.uit.no
  11.  
  12. In article <4ge1op$265@cdn_news.telecom.com.au>, gkalouts@qitgsdv1.telecom.com.au (Gregory Peter Kaloutsis) writes:
  13. >Would some one be kind enough to post a article on the differnce
  14. >between Co-Operative & Pre-Emptive multitasking?
  15.  
  16. The difference is when the task switching is done. In cooperative
  17. multitasking, the task has to call the task switch itself when it
  18. feels like resting. In a pre-emptive multitasking environment, the
  19. scheduler (which usually is activated by interrupt), is the one who
  20. makes the switches happen. The tasks themselves have no control over
  21. when they are active or not. 
  22.  
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  25. Paul Currie                                    |  A4000/030-25/882-25 |
  26. paul@stud.cs.uit.no                            |18MB RAM 1GB QFireball|
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