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Subject: Re: multitasking vs multiple interpreters
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
> Have multiple users connected to one cpu, e.g. onve upon a time with
> vt100's connected to a PDP11.

COT = cooperative multitasking?  The above could also have been
preemptive, I'd expect?