From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce6f6f23c4e880ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-23 22:43:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D16B14B.2A5D8261@attbi.com> From: Mark Biggar X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-{C-UDP; EBM-SONY1} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Multitasking theory question References: <3d123f34.0@news.unibw-muenchen.de> <3D128BA9.8090707@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.235.88.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1024897419 12.235.88.57 (Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:43:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:43:39 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:43:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26636 Date: 2002-06-24T05:43:39+00:00 List-Id: AG wrote: > > "Ted Dennison" 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