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AndrewAPrice
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by AndrewAPrice Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:40 pm
What are the advantages/disadvantages of each? And what do you use?
Candy
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by Candy Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:00 pm
Portability.
os64dev
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by os64dev Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:39 am
using 64 bit long mode so hardware context switching is not possible. monotasking is kind a old school and definatly dumb to implement.
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by pcmattman Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:46 am
Software multitasking is so easy, and fast.
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by AJ Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:00 pm
Future-proofing (hopefully). Realised that software multitasking is the way forward.
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by Kevin McGuire Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:22 pm
I have read the micro code inside the processors is very old for the hardware tasking switching.
You can do everything you will do with the TSS with out it, including switching into VM86 mode.
It does not bloat up my scheduler code trying to work with a TSS structure, and a GDT entry.
AndrewAPrice
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by AndrewAPrice Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:06 am
Nobody selected "my OS can only monotask". Don't be shy!
