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
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