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From: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why use MS-window ?
Message-ID: <10509@ingr.com>
Date: 29 May 90 21:31:43 GMT
References: <404@newave.UUCP>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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in article <404@newave.UUCP>, john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) says:
> 
> In <10699@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin) writes:
>> 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.
> 
> Windows (at least 2.x) is multi-tasking.  Things can be done in the
> back-ground when the machine has extra cycles.  Some "experts" say
> windows is not true "pre-emptive" multi-tasking.  If this means anything
> to you, then you might want to investige further.

As I thought I read in BYTE, the multi-tasking is only available on 386
machines.  286's can only program switch.  Is this clarification correct?
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