Re[2]: [Am-info] O/S 2 support - slightly off topic (my apologies)

[John Poltorak]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:13:00PM -0600, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 14:12, Mitch Stone wrote:
> > Allow me to ask a simple-minded technical question: what if anything is 
> > the relationship between multithreading and preemptive multitasking?
> 
> Multithreading and preemptive scheduling are, in one sense, strongly
> related, and in another, orthogonal concepts.  Most people do not think
> of cooperative multithreading as multithreading at all. 

I have never previously heard the phrase 'coopertive multithreading' and 
suspect you really mean 'cooperative multitasking'...

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John