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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

About Multitasking on the Mac OS

This chapter describes the basic concepts underlying multitasking and how Multiprocessing Services uses them on Macintosh computers.

You should read this chapter if you are not familiar with multitasking or multiprocessing concepts. Note that this chapter covers mostly concepts rather than implementation or programming details. For information about actually using the Multiprocessing Services API in your application, see Using Multiprocessing Services

The topics covered in this chapter include the following:

• Multitasking Basics
• Multitasking and Multiprocessing
• Tasks and Address Spaces
• Task Scheduling
• Shared Resources and Task Synchronization
• Tasking Architectures