> Something about the multitasking in Win95 (among other things) was so different in Windows 3.1, even on the same hardware. You could clearly see processes pas

> Something about the multitasking in Win95 (among other things) was so different in Windows 3.1, even on the same hardware. You could clearly see processes passing control to each other and updates were so slow. That's exactly what was different: Windows 3.1 used only co-operative multitasking (for 16-bit Windows apps anyway), where apps have to yield control to eachother, whereas Windows 95 added pre-emptive multitasking where apps will give up control when the OS wants them to, whether they like it or not.