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Re: [LUG] multiprogramming



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
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From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
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