On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:46:33 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On the contrary, it seems to me that Windows tends to run absolutely
> everything in a single thread, meaning that if anything happens which
> takes some time (e.g., waiting for the CD to spin up, waiting for the
> network, reading from floppy disk), the entire system becomes
> unresponsive.

I don't think that it runs everything as one thread (it doesn't, 
clearly), but that I/O blocking isn't handled very effectively/gracefully 
in some cases.

Jim

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