Nonpreemptive multitasking

• abstract: Nonpreemptive multitasking is a style of computer multitasking in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running process to another process. Such systems are either statically scheduled, most often periodic systems, or exhibit some form of cooperative multitasking, in which case the computational tasks can self-interrupt and voluntarily give control to other tasks.

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