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

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From: Vito
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:13

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Appolonius <ds9qc@qcunix.acc.qc.edu> wrote:

->daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) wrote:
->>Matthew Kramer <kram1968@gmi.edu> wrote:
->>
->>>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.
->>
->>Please read  a book on occasion to get your terms straight.
->>
->>Windows multitasks.  Has since 3.0.  So does the Mac.  The ability
to
->>perform two tasks at the same time is multitasking.
-
->Technically everybody is wrong, including me :)
-
->What Windows 3 and 95 does is "non-preemptive multitasking".
->What Windows NT does is "preemptive multitasking"
-
->VM/CMS, VAX/VMS, UNIX all do "preemptive multitasking".
-
->Windows is the only OS that I know of that does non-preemptive
->multitasking.  What this means is a process, once it gets
->of others."
MacOS isn't preemptive too.
Neither is dos, but wait, dos don't multitask
Win95 was SUPPOSED to be preemptive, theres that Microsoft Promise
again :)
-vito
vito@netaxs.com

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:13:49 GMT
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