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Nope. It kept crashing because the GUI message pump was essentially shared. This is just the tip of the iceberge, there were a lot of bad technical decisions
by frozenport 3y ago
Nope.
It kept crashing because the GUI message pump was essentially shared.
This is just the tip of the iceberge, there were a lot of bad technical decisions that made it unstable.
- mschaef 3y agoComparing Windows NT with OS/2, I'd totally agree with you. Comparing Windows 95 with OS/2, there was way too much 16-bit legacy in Windows. Major parts of Windows 95 were still 16 bit code and protected with a giant lock serializing all access. Windows 95 was a great tactical solution, but not a great OS.
- frozenport 3y agoClearly it was more important that a bug in a user mode GUI app didn't render the system unusable compared to having 16 bit code and a few locks in a mostly serial environment. The story of OS/2 is a project that dragged on for decades with the benefits only harvested when Windows NT put a GUI and app ecosystem on it.