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Re:Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen ... by hulitu on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:37AM (#36041145)
> What was new in Windows 3.1 was a special handler for Ctrl+Alt+Del which tried to identify the program that was not responding and give you the opportunity to terminate it.

This worked 1% of the time. Because of the cooperative multitasking in win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and Me the usual way out of this was reset or power off. Sometimes pressing the Ctrl+Alt+DEL will reboot the computer.

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Re:Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen ... by guraf on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:52AM (#36041268)
> This worked 1% of the time. Because of the cooperative multitasking in win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and Me the usual way out of this was reset or power off.

Only Win 3.1 used cooperative multitasking (and only when running on a 286). All others used preemptive multitasking.

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Re:Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen ... by hulitu on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:10AM (#36042116)
I stand corrected.
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Re:Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen ... by s1gsegv on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:58PM (#36049114)
Windows 3.1 on a 386 used preemptive multitasking, yes, but only between Windows as a whole and other DOS programs you were running. Within Windows, win16 apps were cooperatively multitasked even on a 386.
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