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>> in a general-purpose operating system. If a buggy program enters an
>> infinite loop you want to be able to kill it.
>
>It's not unknown for this to happen when a buggy X Windows program grabs
>the server and never lets go, and that's on a proper multitasking system.
  Also Windows 2000.  Its idea of "pre-emptive" is that the paper clip
can flash a new image once every 30 seconds or so, and in 5 or 10 minutes
you can get enough into Task Manager to tell it to kill the errant process.