Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Multitasking on a II Message-ID: <10404@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 27 Dec 90 09:50:29 GMT References: Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 21 In article flee@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (FRANK LEE) writes: >What IS "pre-emptive multitasking," anyway?? Where the computer controls the multitasking (I'm presuming you know what that means! heh) with no "knowledge" from the individual processes being run concurrently.. That is, each process runs for a certain period of time (time_slice) and then the computer saves the registers and everything, then runs the next process for a period of time... Apparently you can also has "cooperative" multitasking, where I presume each process says "Hey, go ahead, you can run a while"... And if a process never says that, it's being a naughty boy and hogging all the CPU time. -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. /