a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (01/13/91)
Will somebody who is "preeminently qualified" please write an article describing the levels of multitasking, with a brief description of the advantages & hazards of each, as well as examples if available. This will need to include at least: single tasking interrupt handling context switching cooperative multitasking [the several ways of implementing that] preemptive multitasking [the several ways of scheduling those] multiprogramming [a la Tannenbaum] time sharing protected memory [what's an MMU? rings] virtual memory [the several meanings] multiprocessing [is an FPU a coprocessor? why/whynot?] parallel processing [SIMD/MIMD, distributed memory] -harvey PS. Anybody else here ever multitask a ZX81 under Tree Forth? "Humanity is perpetually in the state of the cartoon character, who having run off the edge of the cliff, suddenly looks down. We have no philosophical underpinning." -i forget Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.UUCP