Re: Considering using Windows

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From: Marco Dalla-Gasperina
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 16:56

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>Roger Hadgraft writes:
>
>> It was my understanding that Win386 uses preemptive multi-tasking.
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>No, it does not.
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>Michael Roper
>hDC Computer Corp.
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I thought that Win386 ran non-windows programs preemptively (if the PIF file
is configured for background execution) but windows programs still ran
non-preemptively.

Oh well, probably wrong or not important.

marco

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