What is the difference between cooperative multitasking and preemptive multitasking?
Mike Newton Cooperative Multitasking:- When computer usage evolved from batch mode to interactive mode, multiprogramming was no longer a suitable approach. Each user wanted to see his program running as if it was the only program in the computer. The use of time sharing made this possible, with the qualification that the computer would not seem as fast to any one user as it really would be if it were running only that user’s program. Early multitasking systems consisted of suites of related applications that voluntarily ceded time to each other. This approach, which was eventually supported by many computers operating systems, is today known as cooperative multitasking. Although it is rarely used in larger systems, Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT, and Mac OS prior to Mac OS X both used cooperative multitasking to enable the running of multiple applications simultaneously. Windows 9x also used cooperative multitasking, but only for 16-bit legacy applications, much t
