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- From: bwanga@cats.ucsc.edu (Timothy A. Seufert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 18:51:01 -0800
- Organization: Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow
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- In article <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
- (George Noel) wrote:
-
- >What was the first home computer multitasking Operating System that
- >could handle pre-emptive multitasking? Was it AmigaOS or something
- >before 1984/85?
- >
- >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?
-
- OS/9 was preemptive, and I'm fairly sure it was around well before the
- Amiga. There was at least one UNIX implementation (Xenix) that ran on the
- PC/XT, also before the Amiga. (Yes, it ran quite well - text-only UNIX in
- the early 80's was not a big demand on system resources. The traditional
- monolithic Unices have always been quite efficient. The programs people
- run under them are often pretty hefty, though.)
-
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