On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:52, Robert Newson wrote: [snip] > AFAIK, *nix uses pre-emptive whereas Windows uses co-operative. Early versions of Windows used co-operative multi-tasking but current versions (NT and on) use pre-emptive. John -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug