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preemptionU.S. policy that allowed the first settlers, or squatters, on public land to buy the land they had improved. Since improved land, coveted by speculators, was often priced too high for squatters to buy at auction, temporary preemptive laws allowed them to acquire it without bidding. The Pre-Emption Act (1841) gave squatters the right to buy 160 acres at $1.25 per acre before the land was auctioned. The Homestead Act (1862) made preemption an accepted part of U.S. land policy. See also Homestead Movement. preemption The right to purchase property before, or in preference to, others. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The TimeSys Linux kernel is fully preemptible to provide complete control over system processes through priority schedulable interrupt and softIRQ (bottom half) handlers, and a much wider range of process priorities than generic Linux. Writing for the majority, Justice Blackmun explained that PURPA did not compel the states to adopt the standards, but rather simply to consider them as a condition for continued state activity in an otherwise preemptible field. TimeSys' complete embedded Linux solutions for these boards feature TimeSys Linux GPL, consisting of a fully featured preemptible kernel that extends a standard Linux distribution to support the predictable, extremely low-latency response requirements of embedded systems based on the PowerPC architecture. |
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