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Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> LOL! To be honest, the only multitasking that existed in MS Windows in =
the
> pre-95 days were pre-emptive multi-tasking, where each application was
> expected to periodically call functions such as "GetMessage" and "Yield=
"
> that would allow another application to get a chance to be scheduled.

Um ... I thought that was called collaborative multitasking. Doesn't=20
"pre-emptive" mean that anything can be interrupted at any time?

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