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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: True Multitasking, True Object-oriented, True anything.
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.160509.22797@siia.mv.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:05:09 GMT
References: <6082@stpstn.UUCP> <1991Jan22.035748.275@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1991Jan22.082018.14641@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In <1991Jan22.082018.14641@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> jxf@orion.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:

>In article <1991Jan22.035748.275@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>>How about if we just use "preemptive multitasking" to
>>describe itself and let "multitasking" refer to any number of schemes where
>>two or more otherwise unrelated threads of execution are active at one
>>time?  We can use "multithreaded application" to describe a single
>>program that has multiple threads of execution.

>I would agree with this argument, except for one thing.  The term
>"multitasking," I believe, is derived from the feature of Ada to
>allow the programmer to establish separate threads of control.

The term "multitasking" probably antedates Ada by at least a decade.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]