spirantho wrote:
Tiny point about multitasking:
Windows got multitasking of a kind with '95 but it wasn't pre-emptive. Before that it was just task swapping. NT was pre-emptive I think.
I thought Win'95 also had pre-emptive multi-tasking, e.g. the programs did not have to use special statements to allow task switching. But the drivers and the shell could lock up the machine quite often as they were not clearly divided from the user (as is actually the case on Amiga). This improved much in NT, mostly by forcing the use of updated drivers.
Also a lot of games on amiga just disabled the multi-tasking but this does not mean the OS did not support pre-emptive multitasking.
greets,
Staf.