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Article #1336Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Joseph T. Malloy
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 14:28
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 14:28
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950820025750.2150B-100000@nova.gmi.edu> Matthew Kramer <kram1968@gmi.edu> writes: >On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Dave Glue wrote: > >> Since 3.0. And unlike the Mac, most Windows applications were >> co-operative aware 4-5 years ago. > >No, Windows has never multi-tasked. IT's task-swapped, yes, but never >multi-tasked. Yes, Windows has multitasked, even version 2.x (don't know about version 1, I didn't run it). It employed cooperative multitasking for Windows apps, which can be waylaid by an errant application, and preemptively scheduled DOS boxes, but it multitasks nonetheless. Your feeble attempt at FUD would probably be better if you knew that which you are FUDding.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!itsmail1.hamilton.edu!news From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 20 Aug 1995 10:28:32 -0400 Organization: Hamilton College Message-ID: <417gqg$o7q@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: itsmail1.hamilton.edu