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10-16-2001, 03:36 PM
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Originally posted by Silur:
<STRONG>Hey, wait, wasn't this what they said about NT, oh I mean NT4, oops sorry W2K, ah I get it, _IT_ is finally here - protected memory management under Windows  Sorry for being sarcastic, but considering the fact that even Mac's have had this for about ten years does limit my enthusiasm. No standing ovations, I'm afraid. Preemptive multitasking hasn't quite made it into the M$ paradigm. By design fubar. </STRONG>
| DOS had it, too, in a great multitasker, Desqview. One of its biggest selling points was its discretely loaded windows, which never crashed the entire system.
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