But now a research team at Stanford has overcome those hurdles to make a processor that uses carbon nanotubes to execute the code for a multitasking operating system.

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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 ...

Writing an operating system for a computing platform is one of those non-trivial tasks few people actually need to do, regardless of whether it’s for a small microcontroller or a larger general ...

Windows, prior to Windows 95, and the Mac, prior to Mac OS X, were non-preemptive multitasking operating systems. Contrast with preemptive multitasking. See multitasking.

Multitasking means to be able to run more than one program simultaneously. In the past, computers with CLIs were unable to multitask - the operating systems of the day only allowed one program to ...

The major new feature of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. What took the company so long? Apple claims it was waiting to get multitasking just right before ...

Windows 11 could be getting Windows 10's canceled "Sets" feature, giving the operating system yet another multitasking boost.