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Windows/386 (a version of Windows 2.0) had preemptive multitasking in 1987.
by teddyh 3y ago
Windows/386 (a version of Windows 2.0) had preemptive multitasking in 1987.
- BirAdam 3y agoCovered in https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20 https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20
- teddyh 3y agoAnd discussed here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216455>
- twoodfin 3y agoFor DOS programs only. Windows 95 was the first non-NT version where an errant Windows application couldn’t freeze the system by failing to yield.