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Why aren't computer clocks as accurate as cheap quartz watches?
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I am not advocating it, I only pointed out that its multitasking was
true, pre-emptive, and vastly superior to any MS product.
NT's multitasking is true, preemptive, and as good as any.
Stay in the present. At its peak in the late 90's, OS/2 was a cadillac
to M$'s yugo.
The present is 2005, not the late 90s, and OS/2 is history.
According to some people's warped definition of preemptive
multitasking, but NT's "idea" of it was not what preemptive really is,
as demonstrated in OS/2 (not early releases, like you are whining
about)
Explain the exact differences in multitasking between the two systems,
and why OS/2 multitasking is "better."
He took NT from IBM as part of the parting of the ways, and found
people to embellish it, except he took what you are whining about which
is the versions that could not do preemptive multitasking.
Sometimes it's hard to keep track of the stories about whence NT was
"stolen." One day it's VMS, another day it's OS/2 ...
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