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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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