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From: marco@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Marco Dalla-Gasperina)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Considering using Windows
Message-ID: <6970012@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Date: 15 Nov 89 16:56:44 GMT
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>Roger Hadgraft writes:
>
>> It was my understanding that Win386 uses preemptive multi-tasking.
>
>No, it does not.
>
>Michael Roper
>hDC Computer Corp.
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I thought that Win386 ran non-windows programs preemptively (if the PIF file
is configured for background execution) but windows programs still ran
non-preemptively.

Oh well, probably wrong or not important.

marco