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And incredibly responsive compared to the operatings systems of even today. Imagine that: 30 years of progress to end up behind where we were. Human input should always run at the highest priority in the system, not the lowest.


That ended with Win9x. It was the last OS where the mouse and keyboard inputs were processed as hardware interrupts.



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