> Microsoft have made many, many bad design decisions
> in their time, but this really wasn't their fault...
I have to agree and I knew about most of that already but if :
> "one big address space" as well as virtual memory
was possible from 1987 why didn't windows 3.1 use it? Why wait
another EIGHT years for a simple thing like proper multitasking
(which still seems to be broken in Windows. I hope win2k finally
does it right)
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