[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 19:16, John Winters wrote:
> 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.

Correct.  However, their concept of "pre-emptive"  is crude to say the least.  
Their task-switching scheme is so broken that you get keyboard freezes when 
(for example) you open a large graphics file - this renders the "operating 
system" so apparently sluggish, that it's truly horrible to try to use.  I 
can't be bothered with it!

Chris
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