OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[CJ Kelley]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> 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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yes true...you really cant put processes in the background like you can in
linux/unix.

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