Internet Glossary A type of multitasking in which the process currently controlling the CPU must offer control to other processes. It is called cooperative because all programs must cooperate for it to work. If one program does not cooperate, it can hog the CPU. In contrast, preemptive multitasking forces applications to share the CPU whether they [..]

Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a form of multitasking where it is the responsibility of the currently running task to give up the processor to allow other task [..]

Cooperative multitasking is a multitasking technique that enables two or more programs to cooperatively share the processing time and resources of the host processor. In this technique the programs in [..]