5. A method for providing an object-oriented application including object-oriented statements an interface to a procedural operating system residing on a host computer with a memory component in the computer and a code library stored in the memory component, comprising the steps of: (a) implementing an object-oriented class library, the object-oriented class library comprising classes for requesting services provided by the procedural operating system; (b) providing said classes to said object-oriented application at application run-time; and (c) executing methods in said classes called by said application program by invoking procedural function calls corresponding to said methods called by said object-oriented application to provide an interface to said procedural operating system.
8. The method of claim 5, wherein said code library comprises an object-oriented class which includes a control port object for each of said plurality of processors which contains methods to enable and disable scheduling policies, to set a maximum priority for each of said plurality of processors, to enumerate tasks and threads associated with each of said plurality of processors, and to assign tasks and threads to each of said plurality of processors.