Glossary


multiprocessing kernelsearch for term

The core of the NetWare 5 operating system. The NetWare 5 kernel is integrated to run on both multiprocessor and uniprocessor systems; it is completely multithreaded, and it provides support for preemptible applications. MPK provides fundamental operating system services, such as handling interrupts and the I/O system, managing threads and processes, and allocating and scheduling processor resources.

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