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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How do I force a context switch?
Message-ID: <3677@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 03:08:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3677
Posted: Wed Aug  5 03:08:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 12:38:13 EDT
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Reply-To: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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Summary: a bit of history

Remembering wayyyy back (V21, 23 or 24 days, it all gets muddled)
there WAS an exec call to force a context switch.  It was dropped
'cause "they" felt there was no need for it.  I pointed out that
if I was running my own multitasker (there are good reasons to do
this) that I'd really like to just say "offer the cpu", but no.....

-- Glenn Tenney 
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