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Jack

On 10/18/2011 8:27 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

Yes, early Win's multitasking was cooperative. OS/2's was preemptive and
therefore much more responsive when doing certain tasks.

Yeah, like if DOS or Windows applications crashed, OS/2 protected its
environment and all you had to do was close the session that was running
the dos or dos/win app and reload the app. Also, you could run DOS
apps, win apps, OS/2 apps and print from any of them at the same time
w/o any noticeable slowdowns, as well as cut an paste between all of
them on a 486 yet. Disk and memory access was in the terabytes, disk
fragmentation was non-existent and on and on and on. All over 15 years
ago. WIN ain't near what OS/2 was then, but everyone is happy as hell
with win... yuck!

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