Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 12:02:22AM -0500, vandeveb@letu.edu wrote:
> >> > Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
> >>
> >> Can you prove that Win95 is just pretending to be multitasking ?
> >> What about Win98 ?
>
> I thought that it was true multi-tasking in the sense that it multi-tasked between the mouse &
> everything else. Which is why if one program crashed, the system became useless, but the
> mouse still worked.
Actually, on any modern video the mouse cursor is done in hardware
as I understand it -- Windows couldn't stop that just because it crashed
unless it went trashing registers too.
Hamish
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