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

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 15:28, John Poltorak wrote:
> 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'...

No, I mean cooperative multithreading.  As I said, almost nobody thinks
of cooperative multithreading as being that.  Cooperative vs. preemptive
are CPU scheduling techniques.  Multitasking vs. multithreading are
about sharing memory between tasks, and not CPU scheduling at all.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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