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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Message-ID: <13856@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 91 20:40:22 GMT
References: <1991May30.031517.17099@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991May30.143511.23228@sugar.hackercorp.com> <22057@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <22057@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
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>	In general, I agree with Peter, but Apple _did_ ship the Lisa with
>a windowing system and a fairly real multitasking OS before the Amiga (and
>before the Mac).  However, they exorcised the multitasking and some other

The Lisa O/S used non-preemptive scheduling, just as MultiFinder does.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)