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- From: charlot@CAM.ORG (Richard Bellavance)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 16:23:44 -0500
- Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
- Message-ID: <4cs210$kku@stratus.CAM.ORG>
- References: <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- Keywords: If not, what?
-
- In article <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- George Noel <gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> 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?
- >
-
- I'm almost certain that OS/9 (or was it OS-9) multitasked preemptively. Ah,
- the memories... this is where I started C programming !
-
- Richard.
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- Richard Bellavance - charlot@CAM.ORG - http://www.cam.org/~charlot/
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