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- From: farren@shore.net (farren user)
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- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 19:23:39 -0500
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- jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper) writes:
-
- >The first "home computer" to do pre-emptive multitasking was from a company
- >named "Ohio Scientific" and it ran a version of OS/9.
-
- Depends on what you call a "home computer". Cromemco had a crippled version
- of UNIX that ran on their S100 bus systems, which I believe was multitasking.
- In 1977, I worked for a company called EXTENSYS, who made the very first
- 64K RAM board for S100 bus systems (yes, there was a time when that was a lot
- of memory :-), and was a part of the team that designed and built the
- EXTENSYS system - preemptive multitasking, multiuser, multiprocessor
- (sort of - each I/O device had its own CPU, as did each user, all under
- the control of the "master" CPU, an 8085). Don't know if it would
- qualify as a "home" computer, though - the company didn't last long enough
- to actually deliver very many of them.
-
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