Multitasking is the ability to execute multiple separate tasks in afashion that is seemingly simultaneous. Note the phrase “seeminglysimultaneous.” Short of a multiple processor system, there is no ...

The upcoming 4.0 reference release of Apple's iPhone OS will deliver new support for running multiple concurrent third party apps, and allow users to switch between them using a windows management ...

I've long been a big fan of multitasking. These days, though, I find myself running not only several programs at a time but multiple operating systems as well. Admittedly, as a technology reviewer I'm ...

The next version of the Palm operating system will be based on Linux, as Access attempts to keep the pioneering software alive. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most ...

Although Embedded Multitasking With Small Microcontrollers is not an exhaustive treatise on multitasking operating systems, it does a good job on the two areas it does address: state machines and ...

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Vice President of Marketing, Express Logic Inc. In 1997, Bill Lamie, author of the ThreadX RTOS, wrote an article entitled “Multitasking Mysteries Revealed.” In that article, Bill examined some of the ...

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