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Re:Betting the Company on Windows 8 by antiterra on Monday July 09, 2012 @07:35PM (#4221183)
Windows 95 could preemptively multitask, though. Its "instability" was largely due to it not having a HAL.
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Re:Betting the Company on Windows 8 by btilly on Monday July 09, 2012 @08:36PM (#4221364)
Windows 95 could preemptively multitask 32-bit code. But its core was 16-bit, and there were many legacy 16-bit apps, all of which were cooperatively multitasked.
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