OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Jun 11 22:24:40 UTC 2009


Steve Flynn wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 

That's what the literature says, and I admit, Windows tries, but it does
a very very poor job.  Windows does not handle cpu contention well *at
all* if any process is demanding.  There is just no comparison to
Windows vs Unix/Linux multi-tasking at all.




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