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veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) wrote:

>Mel Martinez (mem@jhu.edu) wrote:

>: Whoever is saying this is quite wrong.  Copland will provide full
>: preemptive multitasking and protected memory for processes.  Old legacy
>: apps will run cooperatively within one larger process, but that process
>: will be isolated from all other Copland processes.

>Why does this sound Win95-ish?

I don't know why. Win95 is quite a bit different. A 16-bit app in
Win95 can crash your whole system, or take complete control. A system
7.5 app can only crash the GUI process, and can only take over control
of that process, not the whole OS. Servers, i/o, daemons, and other
non-gui related processes continue to run in the background.

Seems like a superior architecture to me. By the time there are enough
32-bit apps for Win95, we'll be enjoying complete preemptive
multitasking, protected memory in Gershwin.