Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!santra!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!sam From: sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Heavy/Light-Weight Processes Message-ID: <1503@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 7 Jan 90 18:22:35 GMT Reply-To: sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan) Organization: Edinburgh University Computer Services Lines: 8 Can someone explain to me what is meant by 1. A Heavy weight process 2. A Light weight process, and 3. A Coroutine? Thanks in advance. ++Mano.