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From: cb@sequoia.execu.com (Christopher D. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <19634@sequoia.execu.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 17:18:26 GMT
References: <4085@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1018@ashton.UUCP> <4100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Organization: Execucom Systems Corp.
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In article <4100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> iain@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
[prior messages deleted]
>  Multi-tasking? I don't think so. From what I understand Windows gives
>  you pseudo-multi-tasking but the context switching process is the
>  user! Hardly what I'd call multi-tasking. 
>
>  Iain.

I believe that this is the second or third time around but ...

Windows 3 really does multitask, at least in 386 enhanced mode.  I can
open two DOS windows, set them to background mode, rapidly enter DIR in
each window, and watch both DIR's run at the same time.  The approach is 
does not yield perfect load balancing under all loading situations but
it is competent.

cb
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