dummzeuch 1505 Posted October 11, 2021 2 hours ago, David Heffernan said: So far as I remember you could not install Win95 on multi processor machines. We'll, you could but only one processor would be used. You're probably right. My experience described above was with Windows 2000. I don't think I ever used Windows 95, at least not for software development. Share this post Link to post
Bill Meyer 337 Posted October 11, 2021 13 hours ago, Lars Fosdal said: The closest it came, was non-preemptive multitasking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_multitasking Cooperative was a great euphemism. There was no cooperation unless the developer got everything right. Share this post Link to post
dummzeuch 1505 Posted October 12, 2021 9 hours ago, Bill Meyer said: Cooperative was a great euphemism. There was no cooperation unless the developer got everything right. ... which is kind of the definition of "cooperative". 3 Share this post Link to post
Bill Meyer 337 Posted October 12, 2021 4 hours ago, dummzeuch said: ... which is kind of the definition of "cooperative". Yes, and a euphemism for fragile. Share this post Link to post