Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Threads & Exceptions

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-12 11:12:08

I was referring to 1975.... a little more than 10 years ago
At Monday 2002/08/12 07:39, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]>
>
> > There is another form for which we (at Computer Automation) coined the
>term
> > "cooperative multi-tasking" which is that used in embedded system.  That
> > is, ALL of the programmers are at least aware of what other things are
> > likely to be running, and it is important to get THE job done, rather
>than
> > MY portion.
>
>The term "cooperative multi-tasking" has already been in use for over 10
>years to denote systems where task switches are not up to some scheduler,
>but dependent on explicit calls to yield().
>
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