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Old 19th January 2017, 10:22   #163  |  Link
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Originally Posted by LigH View Post
But times of "cooperative multitasking" (where threads deliberately idle for others) are probably over.
A simple Visual Basic program consisting of a forever loop without any DoEvents() used to bring the entire machine almost to its knees in W2K, wonder if W7, W8.1 W10 still have issues, I'm guessin YES. Windoze has always required cooperation irrespective of whatever M$ has pretended.
(EDIT: that was on a UniProcessor system, never tried on MultiProcessor sys)
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