Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <8F6177D69dashixpressnet@204.213.191.228> , das### [at] x-pressnet
> (daishi) wrote:
> 
> > 'partially' which means win98 is cooporative......(just like mac OS, not
> > counting X of course)
> 
> No, it is pre-emptive with a monolithic operating system.  If you write a
> ...
> In fact this is one of the major improvements in Win 9x since Win 3.x.
> 
>      Thorsten

But, under windows 3.1, separate MS-DOS boxes were preemptively
multitasked.  Goes back farther that you might think.

Win 9x crashes are typically due to bad programs writing into memory
regions that are accessible to all running apps.  And the reason for
those common regions are to retain backwards compatability...

Xander

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