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There is task-switching (which is what tablet OSes do - and what Windows did prior to Windows 95).

There is cooperative multitasking (which is what MacOS 9 and earlier, and Windows 95 thru ME did).

And there is pre-emptive multitasking, which is what UNIX and Linux have done almost since the beginning.

The demands of the latter are what make desktop operating systems "bloated".