Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:28:07 -0500 | From | Mark Lehrer <> | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD |
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>> 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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