In <[email protected]>, on
06/18/2012
at 04:42 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Doesn't "MFT" stand for "Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of
>Tasks"?
Don't confuse etymology with semantics. Not only did more recent
releases of OS/360 support ATTACH for MFT, OS/360 also supported
operator definition and deletion of partitions, so all that was fixed
was the upper limit.
>The instant one does an ATTACH, doesn't the number of tasks change?
Yes, just as many lefties are adroit and not sinister.
>(Or did MFT simulate ATTACH by dispatching an idle member of the
>fixed task pool?)
I've never heard of a fixed task pool.
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