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Mate, it's the '90s. You don't need to be reachable every minute of every hour. Your operating system can't cope

anonymous boring coward Silver badge

Multitasking, background tasks and multi threading worked just fine on single core CPUs like the 386.

So not a dream at all. Just for MS users it might have been a dream.

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