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To: HerbVic who wrote (13698)	5/17/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) of 213182

but I think that both Windows 95 and Mac OS 8.1 have cooperative multitasking with the ability to multi-thread. We have a few programmers who follow this thread. Anyone care to settle this? Win95 has pre-emptive multitasking for all 32 bit apps. However, if you run a 16bit app (there are few of those left), then it uses cooperative multitasking. That is, if a 32 bit app dies, no sweat, if a 16 bit hangs, you're in trouble. John Bird: If you ask me it's about time the MacOS started shamelessly copying the best of windows since since they been copying from us for all these years. Indeed. Apple let Microsoft catch up to them by not releasing timely updates of MacOS. If you think about it, NT 5.0 and MacOS X are coming out at about the same time, with similar features...

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