Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 05:15

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Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>mmm...  Not quite the same thing, and maybe I should perform the following
>experiment -- but I'll just leave it to someone else.
>
>What happens if you write a small program which doesn't do any I/O (e.g.
>a tight loop) and put that in two DOS windows?

As long as the tight loop doesn't do anything evil, like turn off
interrupts (Windows (and OS/2) give DOS programs more priveleges
than they should...), both programs run with no noticable effect
on the rest of the system.

Windows is an *excellent* DOS multitasker and memory extender.  It's
just when you use it to run Windows programs that it sucks!

--Tim Smith

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 24 Aug 1995 05:15:55 GMT
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