From: rgs20 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Richard Stamp)
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Subject: Re: Multitasking and multithreading.
Date: 2 Apr 1998 23:48:27 GMT
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In article <6g0kv1$o7r AT news DOT euro DOT net>, Foxe Northfalk <foxe AT poboxes DOT com> wrote:
>
>I'm writing a graphical user interface with a team of people. I want to add
>a utility to support multitasking. A system that does this is called LWP,
>made by Jushua James Turpen. I want to ask you all to send everything you
>know on multitasking and multithreading that can help the project to me on
>pginkel AT dds DOT nl.

Coincidentally, I have a copy of _The Design and Implementation of the
4.4BSD Operating System_ (McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman) beside me
as I write this.  I see that an entire chapter of 40 pages is devoted to
process management, a further 74 pages to memory management in the
multi-process environment, and 34 pages to interprocess communication.
This is an *introductory* book.  I venture to suggest that your request
for "everything we know" is a little optimistic.

If you're serious about this, I suggest starting with a little bookwork.
You could do worse than the 4.4BSD book for an overview, and I believe
there's a similar book for Windows NT, though I don't know the details.

If you're going to get into multitasking, though, you're really writing
an operating system, not a GUI.  Are you sure that's what you want to do?

Cheers,
Richard
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Richard Stamp
Churchill College, Cambridge