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Re:Terminal latency (2017) by johnzim on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:24PM (#19447628)
Cooperative Multitasking may have been a massive hack but boy was it ever responsive when you selected a menu back in System 7
Re:Terminal latency (2017) by microcolonel on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:57PM (#19448687)
I think some of the benefit of this could be replicated in a preemptive system if your process could yield to a specific other process, and grant your remaining scheduler time (and maybe some of the target's) to the target of your IPC, and preempt the preemption.