Re: mac schmack

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 21:43 on 08 Sep 2003

> > 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. :)

> 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.

There's stuff above here

Nicholas Clark 21:34 on 08 Sep 2003
- peter (Peter da Silva) 21:43 on 08 Sep 2003
  - Nicholas Clark 21:55 on 08 Sep 2003
    - too deep to show

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