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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:43:49PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > > My fucking ST didn't have preemptive multitasking, that's why I dumped it
> > > and got my fucking Amiga, which had preemptive multitasking in 1986. Real
> > > native supported preemptive multitasking. Not a hack.
>
> > But did it have memory protection? I never had one, but my understanding
> > was that it did not, and so any application could take out any other
> > (or the whole machine)
>
> No, it did not, and any application could take out the whole machine.
>
> What is embarassing is the operating systems that DO have memory protection
> for which this is still true. :)
I forget the string - something like
int main () {
printf ("\b\b\b\b\b\a");
return 0;
}
will BSOD even modern Windows. Although I hates Google for not letting
me search on punctuation.
> > But doing preemptive multitasking booting from a single floppy in 1M
>
> The Amiga 1000 came with 256K and accepted a second 256K under a panel in
> the front.
And how much RAM did Windows 95 think it needed to do a worse job?
Nicholas Clark
There's stuff above here
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