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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 22:51:55 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
-
- >What was the first home computer multitasking Operating System that
- >could handle pre-emptive multitasking? Was it AmigaOS or something
- >before 1984/85?
-
- Whatever a "home computer" was at that time. Sinclair QL, the Dragon32
- and the Tandy Coco predate the Amiga.
-
- >I remember OS/9 on the Tandy CoCo 3 could multitask but could it
- >premptively multitask or just co-operatively? Also around which time did
- >this OS get released?
-
- Preemptively. Sinclair had its own OS, Dragon and Coco used OS/9,
- a real-time OS from Microware.
-
- >What ARE the requirements for an OS to be considered an OS?
-
- It has to provide some abstractions of the hardware. That's
- why MS-DOS or CP/M or the C-64 kernal were OSes. Doesn't mean
- these were sophisticated OSes.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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