Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Christopher C. Wood
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:42

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In article <42qclc$3bu@sashimi.wwa.com>, blackbob@sashimi.wwa.com (G) writes:

|> Preemptive multitasking is no more expensive to implement than
|> cooperative.  

If you don't care about existing applications.  And application base
is what makes or breaks platforms.  

|> 92% of the industry has PMT, 

Terry just made that up.  80 million PCs; 6 million running OS/2, a
milion running Win95, 10,000 running Linux and other unix variants
leave 73,990,000 running MS-DOS or Windows.  Add in 10 Million
Macintoshes, and add 1.5 million unix workstations to the other side
of the total.  These figures show 93% of the computers in the world
running cooperative multitasking.  Do you have different figures?
Let's see 'em.

|> Cheers, Terry Murphy

Chris
-- 
Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@aol.com

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: 11 Sep 1995 22:42:53 GMT
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