[rescue] Mac Appliance

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 21:00:58 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:54:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   Cooperative multitasking is multitasking in which each process must
> decide to give up control of the machine periodically...i.e.,
> user-process-controlled timeslicing.  In preemptive multitasking, the
> OS maintains control of the machine and "gives" each process
> timeslices.

but doesn't that still "solve" the re-entrant issue?  

-brian



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