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From: terry@moogvax.UUCP (Terry Westley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: INFO-ADA Digest V88 #47
Message-ID: <709@moogvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 13:28:25 GMT
References: <8802202149.AA07429@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <415@zap.UUCP> <17701@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: terry@moogvax.UUCP (Terry Westley)
Organization: Moog Inc. Electronics & Systems Division, Orchard Park NY
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Keywords: INITIATE
Summary: What is INITIATE?

In article <17701@think.UUCP> barmar@fafnir.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In a non-preemptive environment, there wouldn't be any notion of "time
>slice".  A task returns control to the scheduler any time it executes
>a DELAY, ACCEPT, SELECT, or INITIATE statement, or when it calls a
>task entry.

I know about DELAY, ACCEPT, SELECT, and entry calls, but what is an 
INITIATE statement?
-- 
  Terry Westley         
  Moog, Inc. (no, not the synthesizer company)
  East Aurora, NY  14052-0018
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