Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/27/15:07:37
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Nelson <neverjaden AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: **MAKING OS**
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Christopher Nelson wrote:
>
> > it used cooperative multitasking because it couldn't pre-empt DOS.
>
> Not true. Windows 3.X uses cooperative multitasking between Windows
> programs, but Windows was always preemptively multitasking between
> different DOS boxes. The problem or preempting DOS was solved a long,
> long time ago.
>
i meant, couldn't pre-empt the interrupt services/etc.
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