release 0.0.0.20 and thoughts
Billy Tanksley
tanksley@mailhost2.csusm.edu
Mon, 21 Aug 1995 19:29:06 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 18 Aug 1995 rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu wrote:
> Billy Tanksley:
> Cooperate is more flexible than preemptive simply because it's more
> primitive, more basic. Preemptive is a simple addition to
> cooperative, and could easily be done in a small part of the system
> without requiring any change to the rest.
> Technologically, sure -- for the case where the underlying hardware
> supports pre-emption, but you've procastinated on making it available
> in the system.
No, it's available at the same time. It's just not USED all the time.
> Raul
-Billy