You Are Reading an Old Case Study About an Application

question 21

Multiple Choice

You are reading an old case study about an application running on Windows 95. The application became unresponsive and caused the OS to freeze, prompting a restart of Windows 95. What is the most likely reason Windows 95 froze and had to be restarted?

• A) Windows 95 was a single-tasking operating system.
• B) Windows 95 used preemptive multitasking instead of cooperative multitasking.
• C) Preemptive multitasking is only enabled on 64-bit processors.
• D) The application was 16-bit and used cooperative multitasking.

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