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God I remember those days. The Mac was way late to the party. Was Win95 preemptive or cooperative? I totally forget. Pretty sure only the NT versions of window

God I remember those days. The Mac was way late to the party. Was Win95 preemptive or cooperative? I totally forget. Pretty sure only the NT versions of windows were preemptive. I recall there was a period of time when you’d run Windows 2000 because it was so much more stable than 98/ME. It worked mostly okay but it didn’t have as good of support for gaming and was pretty late to the party with DirectX support.

burnte 4y ago
Win95 was both, it didn't preempt Win12 apps, they'd all run in the same VM space, but 32bit ones could be preempted, but still take down the system. Full protetion eeded the NT kernel.
twoodfin 4y ago
Win95 was preemptive and with full memory protection. They obviously had to make compromises for performance and compatibility’s sake that made the long term move to NT essential, but I feel like the Chicago kernel team’s efforts have never (to my knowledge) been well-documented or -appreciated.
- monocasa 4y ago
  I wouldn't say full memory protection. The shared arena was kind of a "don't touch but the hardware isn't enforcing it" shared 1GB region that all processes had access to.
- GeekyBear 4y ago
  Definitely not full memory protection. A Win32 program could take down the whole computer.