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From: bwinto... Blake Winton
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <33b65ab4....@news.fyi.net>, an...@fyi.net (Andy) wrote:
>> > >multitasking of win95 its pretty sad very sad.. 
>> There is no multitasking on Win95. This is a marketing lie.
>Actually, there is.  Multitasking and multithreading.  But the
>threading part is limited: it can only handle 256 threads at a time,
>while NT and OS/2 have no limit.

Well, sort of...

I saw the output from a program which started up two threads, each of
which printed the number from one to 100.  Under a dual-processor NT
box, the result was what you'ld expect (1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 ...).
under a single-processor 95 box, the result was (1 2 3 ... 99 100 1 2 3 
.. 99 100).  Multithreading?  I think not.

Later,
Blake.

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