Actually, Windows 95/98/SE/Me use preemptive for all applications that
support it (most newer ones) but if the app doesn't support it, it runs it
in cooperative mode.  WinNT/2000 based computers put the cooperative tasks
in one preemptive thread (or multiple if set to do so), and control the
amount of resources they get, but one cooperative thread in Win95/98/SE/Me
can bring the whole system down.
Matthew

At 05:38 PM 7/10/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Windows has not used co-operative multi-tasking since Windows 3.1.
>Preemptive multi-tasking was introduced in Windows 95.  Perhaps what you
>are thinking of is that all 16-bit programs run in one virtual machine.
>
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>
>
> > I've really come to *hate* dos/windows.  windows is buggy and
> > leaky (and there's no evidence that it will ever get fixed), and
> > its cooperative multitasking model (and model for use of other
> > system resources) makes it subject to the whims and bugs of
> > whatever rogue program you might be running.
>
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