itsy bitsy Unix

[Huw Davies]

On 18/03/2005, at 7:04 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Come to think of it, cooperative multitasking is trivial, you can code
> your own.  It looks like this:
>
>      for {;;} { task1(); task2(); task3; /* etc */ }
>
> and each task simply does stuff for a while, then returns when it has
> nothing left to do or when it's time to give another task a shot at
> the CPU.  That sort of system is very simple and very reliable.

Anyone who's used a Macintosh before OS-X might want to disagree here.

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