Protected mode multitasking.

From: Patrik Weibull (steganos128_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:50:53 +0000 (UTC)

Hello. I'm planning an own operating system, and was wondering how
multitasking could be implemented. I gathered that one way of doing it is
to take X amount of instructions from a process, load it's stack and
registers, execute them, save the registers and stack, then load the next
process.

You get the idea. Is there some faster way of doing this that you know of?

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