RE: Ready to scrap an AS/400

Seems to me M$'s original plan for certifying Win '95 apps included full NT
compatibility.  Then they remembered games.  "True" Win 9x apps are
_supposed_ to use preemptive multitasking.  Then there are the mysterious
memory poaching problems.  On the whole, it's better than NLMs under Novell
3.x.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [mailto:dhandy1@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 12:18 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Ready to scrap an AS/400
> 
> 
> Alexei,
> 
> >of course it is unpleasant when application locks up the system.
> >But is operating system always to blame ?
> 
> Yes, to the extent that the operating system did not prevent an errant
> application from taking the rest of the system with it.  This is not
> common with OS/400, but is obviously possible.
> 
> It *is* common a "cooperative" multi-tasking environment, although I
> hesitate to call Win9x an operating system...
> 
> Doug
> > 
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