Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Multiprocessing Services

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Multiprocessing Services provides a programming interface that allows your application to create separate execution threads called tasks. These tasks are preemptively scheduled among the available processors in the system (even if there is only one processor).


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		Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services [PDF] This document describes the Multiprocessing Services application programming interface through Multiprocessing Services 2.1. It contains conceptual information, programming examples, and a complete API reference. New features in version 2.1 include support for kernel notifications and gestalt selectors to determine the presence of preemptive task-safe system software functions.