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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: Background ??  (What's this bkgrd stuff ??)
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 23:09:44 EST
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In article <518@cepu.UUCP> dowdy@cepu.UUCP (Dowdy Jackson) writes:
>
>     I have been reading several articles that have talked about running
>things in the background. I am curious about this . First, I would like to
>know how one goes about running something in the background on a machine
>that has only one CPU ?? Secondly, is it really running in the background,
>(ie UNIX) or does the process stop until it is accessed ??

Simple.  One simply uses dynamic address relocation, a fast timesharing
interrupt, and a context switching kernel.

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