OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Christopher Chan]

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> 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.
>   

So Windows had a lousy process scheduler. That does not make it 
non-multitasking does it now?