Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:53:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | RE: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"? |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Michael Nelson wrote:
> >No. Cooperative multitasking is a severely broken method, which as far as > >I know is only used by M$ WinDog. Trusting the applications to multitask > >was stupid when M$ started to use it, and the people who have created and > >now maintain Linux would never use such a bad multitasking method. > > Actually, it's also used by Novell Netware. In certain situations, it can be put to good use.
it's also used in Linux in the kernel. But as an application scheduling policy [like in Windows] it's badly broken.
-- mingo
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