preemptive multitasking

Alexander Boström abo@stacken.kth.se
03 Aug 1999 14:10:17 +0200


Logic Lord <logic@phayze.com> writes:

> What exactly is the low-level operation of pre-emptive multitasking? As I
> currently understand it, the process is given a fixed number of clocks
> before being forcefully taskswitched..

But one should make it possible to switch task even before that number of
clock cycles, right?

/abo