kai wrote:
I still have a set of OS/2 Warp floppies, by the way. (This along with a copy of OS/2 1.3.)
I still have a few versions here and have one computer running Warp 4
With Windows, your computer was essentially locked up, during formatting.
Still, is pretty much an issue. Unfortunately the folks in redmond have yet (as of XP) to figure out how to write a pre-emptive multi-tasking kernel. I don't know if linux is pre-emptive or cooperative, but it certianly functions better than NT/XP.
With OS/2, you started the format, and went back to whatever you were doing. You'd then have to check to see if the formatting was finished, because it had such an insignificant impact on performance, that you never noticed it had completed.
It's pre-emptive MT. Even Windows 3.1 has it, for the DOS sessions, as DOS doesn't know about cooperative MT. However, Windows apps in 3.1 and 3.1 apps, running in W95, W98 etc., are also cooperative MT. I believe Macs, prior to the BSD kernel were to. OS/2 only used cooperative MT within WinOS2 sessions. Separate WinOS2 sessions were pre-emptive.