ModelSim is the application you use as an example? I'm running it in Linux right now. Did you only pay for the PE version or something?

Win95 did not have full preemptive multi-tasking. It was basically co-operative multi-tasking with a few warts added on. The innovation in 95 was that Windows would force you to yield your time slice every time you made a system call (or something like that, I don't remember the exact details). However, if your program never made a system call (just sat and spun in a loop) it would still lock up the box, and there was nothing you could do about it (other than deal with the BSOD, of course).

This thread is sort of amusing to read for me, because I just finished dealing with these issues.

What most people don't take into consideration is that Linux support for WPA encryption is even worse than it is for wifi devices in general. Its true that one is able to use ndiswrapper if there are no other drivers available, but ndiswrapper does not support WPA encryption. Granted, WPA encryption is not needed for a wireless connection, but since I use wireless at my apartment as my main internet connection, I really need some form of encryption to work, or else the entire building ends up sharing my connection with me. In these situations, I've resigned myself to using windows, simply because of the headache involved in getting Wifi with encryption to work reliably for a long period of time.