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- finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) wrote:
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- ->>If this is true, then why can I multitask MS-DOS programs in WfWG 3.11?
- ->
- ->You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when
- ->you multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor
- ->time, and with task-switching, it only gives a diffent one all the power,
- ->the one you have selected at the time.
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- I can list the directory listing in two MS-DOS windows _simultaneously_.
- Or format a floppy in one and do something else in another at the same
- time. And this was in Win 3.11. Why do you call that task switching?
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