Examples for pre-emptive and non-preemptive resources in OS

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According to my understanding, In Operating Systems Preemptive resources are those which can be taken away from a process without causing any ill effects to the process, while non-pre-emptive resources are those which cannot be taken away from the process without causing any ill effects.

I am interested in knowing examples of these pre-emptive and non-pre-emptive resources, in TWO separate categories i.e Hardware Resources and Softwares Resources.

Generally when people give examples it is these Hardware Resources, but I am not sure about the examples w.r.t Software Resources.

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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '17 at 20:01

Memory is an example of a preemptive resource, as that is one of the main resources processes dread to share.. A printer is an example of a non-preemptive resource, as when a process has been granted access to it, a process must finished in operations without being interrupted.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '17 at 04:55

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Microsoft were using non-preemptive till windows 3.x whereas Apple started using Preemptive from OS X.

answered Jan 07 '17 at 04:55

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Examples for pre-emptive and non-preemptive resources in OS

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