OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>     
>
> Are you serious? Windows has been a preemptive multi-tasking OS since
> Win98 I think, and it had some hack to fake multitasking before that.
> If you can link to a page which states otherwise, I'd live to be
> corrected.
>   
Not completely. In Windows, you had to use the official Windows system
calls which all had multitasking built in. But if you wrote a loop that did

while (true)
{
  a=1;
}

You basically hang the machine.

Not on Unix.

Gilles.