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Re:Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA by rbanffy on Saturday January 19, 2013 @12:44PM (#5084023)
> Windows didn't come to dominate the desktop because consumers loved it.

PC users did not hate it. Most DOS users were not ready to move to Macs and Windows provided an easy migration path, with 3.1 being, finally, good enough and able to run multiple DOS applications simultaneously.

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Re:Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA by walshemj on Saturday January 19, 2013 @02:04PM (#5084350)
And at the time (this is pre OS X) apples OS was not preemptive multitasking which is sort of required for a useful window based GUI
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Re:Microsoft's ARM blunder: Why Windows RT was DOA by rbanffy on Saturday January 19, 2013 @03:29PM (#5084635)
> sort of required for a useful window based GUI

Not really. At that time, I was programming under Windows 3 and I quickly learned to call yield() from within long-running functions. It was not perfect, but it was good enough.

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