In povray.general Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: So 9x and NT are mostly preemptive, but they still have a cooperative 
: system inside for legacy apps.

  That's why they are only partly pre-emptive.
  I can make a program that completely steals all the CPU time in windows.
  I can't do this in Unix. I can make a program that steals _most_ of the
CPU time, but still it just can't lock up the system; other programs can
still run and, for example, kill the resource-stealing program if necessary.
In windows, however, it is possible to make a program that locks up the
system completely.
  I don't know about win2k or NT.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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