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  4. From: brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
  5. Subject: Re: A question or three.
  6. Date: 14 Aug 92 00:31:06 MDT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Aug14.003106.24719@hellgate.utah.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
  9. References: <1992Aug10.162757.13720@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Aug11.222749.29690@panix.com> <1992Aug13.173409.25915@njitgw.njit.edu>
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  13. In article <1992Aug13.173409.25915@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  14. ...
  15. >They have similar concepts, but the MS API makes you do more work.
  16. >You have to call functions that, IMO, should be called automatically
  17. >when the program loads.
  18.  
  19. Agreed, though NT fixes one important problem that PM still has.
  20. If one PM app blocks to do something time consuming (instead of
  21. using a thread) then all PM programs will be hung waiting for that
  22. PM app to finish. This happens because PM has one global event queue.
  23. Win32 has an event queue per process (like X does).
  24.  
  25. Brian
  26.