On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 12:02:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking. > >> > >> Can you prove that Win95 is just pretending to be multitasking ? > >> What about Win98 ? > > I thought that it was true multi-tasking in the sense that it multi-tasked > between the mouse & > everything else. Which is why if one program crashed, the system became > useless, but the > mouse still worked.
Actually, on any modern video the mouse cursor is done in hardware as I understand it -- Windows couldn't stop that just because it crashed unless it went trashing registers too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
