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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Apple HW & SW questions
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In article <15262@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>Multitasking ("TRUE" or otherwise) implies preemption.
>
>Multiprocessing implies multiple processors.

But multiprogramming implies that the programs know something about each
other, which in the mac OS.  I'm going to be a real pain here and say that
the Mac OS is PREEMPTIVE MULTITASKING-- a program is pre-empted whenever it
asks for user input.
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