Re: Multitasking theory question

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

AG wrote:
> However, what I was driving at is a sort of a virtual machine:
> - *assuming* it runs at all, and lets you do some basic things
> like Turing machine, where does an OS come into it?

The places where a machine isn't a turing machine. I.e., Input/Output.

> Sure, it
> may take ages for anything to happen if the computer is sufficiently
> slow but you still can implement whatever scheduling you like.

Uh, no. If you have a 3rd party device driver that blocks, then you can't do
non-blocking I/O to that device, regardless of what cleverness you set up in
your part of the program.

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