On: PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Guide (2000)

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> Windows 95 absolutely had memory protection and preemptive multitasking, at least for “native” Win32 applications.

I know it had preemptive multitasking, but did it have memory protection? I didn't use Windows in that era, but my recollection is it didn't.

I do remember all the apologetics for cooperative multitasking, because that's what Macs were stuck with so it had to be justified.

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Win32 processes were isolated. The problem is that certain kernel objects were limited and could be leaked leading to stability problems. Compatability with DOS required some regions of memory to be unprotected.