Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!fordke
From: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why use MS-window ?
Message-ID: <10536@ingr.com>
Date: 31 May 90 14:53:34 GMT
References: <21691@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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in article <21691@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) says:
> In article <10509@ingr.com> fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) writes:
>>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?
> As usuall BYTE's negative bias towards MSWindows creaps through as
> errors.  MSwindows does multitask on 286s (and if you are patient
> enough even 8086s).
> [stuff deleted]

I have received a number of email replies, thanks to all.  When I mentioned
multi-tasking, I mistakenly assumed readers would assume the "pre-emptive"
form where background tasks can use the cpu.  This is not available with
Windows on a 286, but it is with the 386.

PS-  There error was mine, and not that of BYTE magazine.  Their article
was very supportive of Windows.  -kef/MM-
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