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SubjectRe: Anti-Linux SMP FUD

>> BTW. Someone told me that Windows 3.1 already had a multi-tasking
>> kernel... except that all the applications were running under the
>> same process.
>
> Yep. Windows 3.1 pre-emptively multi-tasked DOS boxes, but all
> Windows programs were co-operatively multi-tasked.

With the rather painful exception of disk IO. Try copying a file from
a floppy while doing anything else and you'll see how painful it is. This
wasn't fixed in 95 either (probably not 98 - who knows about NT).

Under OS/2, system responsiveness improved under heavy disk access,
but under Windows it freezes the system entirely.

Mark


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