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From: Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: Multitasking theory question
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:43:39 GMT
Date: 2002-06-24T05:43:39+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D16B14B.2A5D8261@attbi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: PawR8.3$zt.566@news.xtra.co.nz

AG wrote:
> 
> "Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
> news:3D128BA9.8090707@telepath.com...
> > Kai Schuelke wrote:
> 
> > How tasks are implemented is up to the compiler.
> <<...>>
> > DOS has no process support of any kind, Win32 supports threads.
> 
> What does it have to do with DOS or any OS for that matter?
> Surely, a run-time system can implement whatever scheduling
> it wants to (within hardware capabilities that is). After all, what
> is an OS but a glorified run-time system...

The OS can greatly effect how things work.  For example if your
run-time system implements its own threads inside a OS process
then things like the OS blocking the process on IO and other
services can interfere with the run-times internal threading.

--
Mark Biggar
mark.a.biggar@attbi.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-24  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-20 20:46 Multitasking theory question Kai Schuelke
2002-06-20 20:53 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21  2:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-24  3:18   ` AG
2002-06-24  4:13     ` tmoran
2002-06-24  4:24       ` AG
2002-06-24  7:33         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-25  3:27           ` AG
2002-06-25  4:48             ` tmoran
2002-06-25  5:00               ` AG
2002-06-25  5:17               ` Darren New
2002-06-25  5:25                 ` AG
2002-06-24  5:43     ` Mark Biggar [this message]
2002-06-24  6:48       ` AG
2002-06-24 15:14         ` Darren New
2002-06-24 16:19           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-25  2:01           ` AG
2002-06-25  3:21             ` Darren New
2002-06-25  4:01               ` AG
2002-06-25  4:19                 ` Darren New
2002-06-25  4:51                   ` AG
2002-06-26  1:58                     ` Darren New
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