Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
I think what they mean by *true* multitasking is:
1. Win95 is designed to make the program that you have 'active' (the top
program you are using at the time) work fastest and gives it max power while
the background tasks (the ones you've got open but aren't using at the
moment) have a very small amount of CPU usage and are minimised in memory.
This can be a complete pain if you're using lots of programs on a server or
many important, power-demanding programs at once, and is really crummy for
CAD/CAM and other such programs.
2. Linux seems to think it's running on several terminals, because you can
run lots of different consoles at the same time, as if you were only using
one (eg when you press Control-Alt-F2, F3, etc). Win95 doesn't do this.
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