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| | A brief history of Windows |
 | | Windows marches inexorably on, via the real-mode to the virtual mode, but is still incapable of taking advantage of the features that decent operating systems use (virtual memory and process scheduling) because, essentially, Windows is just a Graphical Thing implementing the famous Win16 API, and DOS handles devices such as keyboard, mouse, screen, printer and... |
 | | Windows NT 3.1 (then 3.5) was so well designed that if a third party screen driver was unreliable and crashed, it didn't matter: you could still try and guess where to click the mouse, or use keyboard shortcuts, and basically still keep on running, or just leave the machine alone! |
 | | Unfortunately, when users complained that Windows 95 was faster than Windows NT 3.51, it was considered wise to rip out all of the user-space screen driver redirection (similar to X-windows) and to run all screen drivers in user-space. |
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