"Spiff: IRQs are not interrupts" - yep, that I know, they''re Interrupt Request channels (it was just a bad explanation from me, I blame the swede in me for that) and every hardware device needs to have one. What I didn''t know was that OS level interrupts was called just interrupts too. IRQ interrupts are the most basic interrupts though.

Bah, this is getting confusing...I think we''ve helped Esap1 though

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Daniel Netz, Sentinel Design
"I'm not stupid, I'm from Sweden" - Unknown

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Original post by Zipster

From what I know, threads are processes that are each alocated a certain percentage of CPU time.

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Not necessarily. Processes only get so much CPU time too. The main difference is that multiple threads share a single process''s memory space (if they couldn''t, they''d be largely useless!) whereas processes are nearly always independent of each other.