itsy bitsy Unix

This is getting off-topic, and heaven forbid I would say anything nice about Windows, but 32-bit tasks in 9x are preemptively multitasking. It's only the 16-bit ones that are still cooperative. However, there was poor isolation between the two worlds and a single 16-bit task behaving badly could (because of the way system resources and mutexes are employed) still cause trouble for 32-bit tasks even though they're supposed to be in their own little hell, as far as the scheduler is concerned. Actually, 98SE is the only version of Windows I don't mind ... well, okay, I can tolerate 2000 also. *awaits giant LART for the topic diversion* -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- FORTUNE: You will feel gypped by this fortune. -----------------------------