Re: Supervisor mode & multitasking

[Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> Hence the idea. But if you all think its more dangerous (because of normal
> programmers' lazyness), than advantageous, I can cancel this function.

No, I would definitely vote for a multitasking supervisor mode and have
noticed it would be handy for several things (network demos? ;-).
Aswell as this, a clean OS design would support supervisor multitasking.
Of course, in an OS like this, user processes shouldn't be able to change
themselves into supervisor.

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