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- From: jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 17:25:20 GMT
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- In article <4cmqtr$57u@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- > 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.
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- The first "home computer" to do pre-emptive multitasking was from a company
- named "Ohio Scientific" and it ran a version of OS/9.
-
- It came out in the '78 - '80 timeframe, I believe.
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