On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:45:47 -0700 you wrote:

>Of course Win95 still used timeslicing like Windows 3
>and earlier used (at least I'd think so), except now
>you couldn't change the length of the slice. "Since ya
>can't see it, it must NOT be doing it!" Right? :)

     Win 3.x and below used cooperative multitasking, where each application ran for as long as it wanted to, then relinquished control back to the kernel.  Windows 95 and NT introduced the ability to interrupt an application before it relinquished control (preemtive multitasking).  But, of course, only one application is actually running at any given moment.

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