[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Dave McGuire]

On August 3, Brian Hechinger 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?  

  Hmm...upon giving it some thought, I guess it does.  An application
need only give up control when it's "ready", and won't be interrupted
at just any random point.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD