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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