OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Christopher Chan]

Rashkae wrote:
> Steve Flynn wrote:
>
>   
>> Windows pre-emptively multi-tasks. Has done since Windows 95,
>> certainly for native 32 bit applications. Can't comment on 16 bit as I
>> was coding exclusively for Amiga at that time, which most definitely
>> pre-emptively multi-tasked out of the box.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> That's what the literature says, and I admit, Windows tries, but it does
> a very very poor job.  Windows does not handle cpu contention well *at
> all* if any process is demanding.  There is just no comparison to
> Windows vs Unix/Linux multi-tasking at all.
>
>   

At least Windows plays (played? does Vista stutter?) music without 
stuttering and ... and ... (replace ... with favourite [former] pet 
peeve about Linux desktops)