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by Damogran6
224 days ago
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At the time, formatting a floppy disk was a single task thing. Downloading a file via Zmodem was mostly a single task thing. The Windows of the day could to the latter, but not the former. OS/2 on my 8mb 386sx could do both AND have a clock up, and play solitaire, and have another terminal window open. It took a bit to get there, and there was swapping while everything loaded, but it was true pre-emptive multitasking, while still maintaining the highly time critical I/O stuff that Windows couldn't touch. |
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