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Subject: Re: Why use MS-window ?
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Date: 24 May 90 23:17:00 GMT
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/* Written  6:14 am  May 24, 1990 by wjin@cs.purdue.EDU in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "Why use MS-window ?" ---------- */
According to the discussions, windows for 88/86/286 machines cannot do
muti-tasking. Then my question is why use windows if multi-tasking is
impossible ? Anyway you start one job and wait until it is done.
Maybe you can hold a process like an editor, and do something in other window,
wait util it is finished and get back to the editor.
Is this all reason why they use ms-window ?
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W. Jin
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I didn't read the discussions to which you refer, but I imagine you misinter-
preted them.  MS-Windows does do multitasking on any machine, which is the
primary reason for using it.  In fact, I'm using it right now to run
CrossTalk XVI to access the net, because I can grab text off of the screen into
an editor, modify it, and then send it back to the net as if I were typing it,
and also so I can do other things with my computer while I download files.
  
-Brent
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