Messages in this thread |  | | From | Michael Nelson <> | Subject | RE: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"? | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:26:10 -0500 |
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That's why I said "certain situations" :-).
-----Original Message----- From: Ingo Molnar [SMTP:mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 1996 1:54 PM To: Michael Nelson Cc: 'Derrik Pates'; Uwe Bonnes; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: RE: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"?
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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