ABSTRACT

First the question arises as to what the benefits should be in using Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000 for psychological experiments. For many years, MsDos based applications have been used and these have proved to be reliable experimental systems, despite the fact that MsDos is not a specific real time operating system. Many development toolkits, such as Mel (Schneider, 1988) and Taskit (Gerritsma & Van der Meulen, 1991), are used for building experimental tasks with adequate real time characteristics, and they have gained quite a high popularity. In particular the benefit-cost ratio is good.