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From: iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga is NOT a multi-tasking computer system !!
Message-ID: <3826@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 25 Aug 88 15:52:57 GMT
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[In "Re: Amiga is NOT a multi-tasking computer system !!", Wayne Knapp said:]
:
: Multitasking was around long before the Amiga.  Still most people don't use
: multitasking that much.  For the most part 99.99% of the things that people
: use multitasking for can be handled by desk accessories, which in fact is
: a type (albeit, limited) of multitasking.
:
Our first multitasking microcomputer was an Altos, at least seven years
old.  It ran MP/M-II, a variant of CP/M with a true interrupt-driven
multitasking kernel.  What fun it was, with four users trying to ride
one poor little overworked Z-80!