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What is pre-emptive multitasking?

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Jace Vandervort

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In preemptive multitasking scheduling processes , scheduler can interrupt one running process and and allocate CUP to another process without letting the complete the task of first process. Window 95 introduced preemptive scheduling and Mac also uses this scheduling process.

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