Reply to post: Re: True multitasking didn't exist ...

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

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Re: True multitasking didn't exist ...

True "multitasking"/"multiprocessing" doesn't depend on the OS onlly - it depends on the CPU architecture. It has to be able to really run more than one task/thread/process at the same time. It's in such situations where race conditions can become really dangerous - if proper CPU opcodes aren't used.

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