OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Steve Flynn]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:22 PM, CJ Kelley<debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Nor is it multi-tasking multi-user as Unix was designed to be although
>> with
>> the faster processors they are stating to fake it pretty well!
>
> that is quite true..I get a lot of people who claim that windows is a
> multi-tasking os because they can get multiple programs running at the same
> time..
>
> i have to tell them that just because the window border changes color,
> doesnt mean that it is being processed in the back ground

Windows pre-emptively multi-tasks. Has done since Windows 95,
certainly for native 32 bit applications. Can't comment on 16 bit as I
was coding exclusively for Amiga at that time, which most definitely
pre-emptively multi-tasked out of the box.


-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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