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From: mls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (michael.l.siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Summary: what did you say?
Message-ID: <576@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 May 89 20:54:43 GMT
References: <17183@usc.edu> <4679@okstate.UUCP> <1925@internal.Apple.COM> <18888@cup.portal.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <18888@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
> If you've got kernel sources for Unix, try hacking it to not
> use pre-emptive multitasking.  It might be interesting to see
> what happens.

Admittedly, the last time I looked at the UNIX kernel was in graduate school
some 15 years ago, and it was 6th edition, but UNIX multitasking has been
based on time-slices and not on preemtption in all versions I know about.
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