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To: Elmer who wrote (69141)	1/27/2002 12:43:17 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

>Did the 32-bit apps run in their own protected address space and were they pre-emptively task switched?< 32-bit apps did indeed run in their own protected address space, but task switching was not pre-emptive. Windows 3.x also had a switch that would disable paging, thus enabling it to run on a 286. This option also disabled the ability to run 32-bit apps. BTW, applications for the earliest version of Windows (1.x) often had a runtime version of Windows as an option to allow them to run on systems without Windows installed. The runtime version of Windows obviously did not support task switching at all.