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-In CooperativeMultitasking, a task can keep the [CPU] to itself as long as it wants. The [Kernel] can only switch tasks if the currently running task makes a system call.
+In CooperativeMultitasking, a task can keep the [CPU] to itself as long as it wants. The [Kernel] can only switch tasks if the currently running task makes a system call or calls a yield function (which technically is a system call).
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+Used by [DOS], [Windows] 3.11 and earlier and [MacOS] versions before [MacOSX]
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Contrast PreemptiveMultitasking.
