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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:56:20 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4cv2rk$2lk@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4cmd5g$7h0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4cmqtr$57u@serpens.rhein.de> <4covm0$49k@redstone.interpath.net>
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- In article <4covm0$49k@redstone.interpath.net>,
- jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper) wrote:
-
- >The first "home computer" to do pre-emptive multitasking was from a company
- >named "Ohio Scientific" and it ran a version of OS/9.
-
- I thought it might have been M/PM which predated OS/9. But I am not sure that it
- was preemptive multitasking. It WAS multi-user.
-
- >It came out in the '78 - '80 timeframe, I believe.
-
- M/PM was around a few years before that I believe. (Of course the division of
- Magnavox I work for built a timesliced multitasking application for the 8080
- back when it was $100 per chip. But that does not count as it was part of a
- satcom modem instead of a consumer product. {^_-} But the 8080 certainly became
- a home computer as things turned out.)
-
- >--
- >Jim Cooper | World: jamie@interpath.com | "I-Net 225 is my life... or at
- > | BIX: jcooper | least it seems like it!" :-)
- >
- >Definition of Perfection: Dysfunctionally Challenged.
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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