Single Threaded Environment

[Rick]

Hi,

I know this might not be the best place to ask this but.. umm I know
Java is a multithreaded environment. what do you call a single threaded
environment where there are no multiple threads or scheduler? Please
tell me because I can't seem to recall the term Is it just "single
threaded environment"? Or is the term something else? Thanks!

Rick

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

I know this might not be the best place to ask this but.. umm I know
Java is a multithreaded environment. what do you call a single threaded
environment where there are no multiple threads or scheduler? Please
tell me because I can't seem to recall the term Is it just "single
threaded environment"? Or is the term something else? Thanks!

It seems like you don't know the difference between "process" and "thread".
The major division is between "single-tasking" environments such as MS-DOS
where only one process can execute at the same time and "multi-tasking"
environments where many processes run in parallel governed by a scheduler
(there's a further distinction between "cooperative" and "preemptive"
multitasking). Threads are just a conceptually minor performance-related
extension of the multitasking concept.