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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> 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...