Re: mac schmack

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 21:34 on 08 Sep 2003

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:22:42AM -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)

But doing preemptive multitasking booting from a single floppy in 1M is a
clear demonstration of how much certain other commercially successful OSes
of the time sucked.

Nicholas Clark

There's stuff above here

Re: mac schmack peter (Peter da Silva) 17:22 on 08 Sep 2003
- Chris Nandor 17:31 on 08 Sep 2003
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 19:17 on 08 Sep 2003
    - too deep to show
- Paul Mison 17:37 on 08 Sep 2003
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 19:22 on 08 Sep 2003
- Simon Wistow 17:38 on 08 Sep 2003
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 19:46 on 08 Sep 2003
- Nicholas Clark 21:34 on 08 Sep 2003
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 21:43 on 08 Sep 2003
    - too deep to show
Chris Nandor 17:30 on 08 Sep 2003
- Yoz Grahame 18:13 on 08 Sep 2003
  - Chris Nandor 18:17 on 08 Sep 2003
- peter (Peter da Silva) 18:59 on 08 Sep 2003
Paul Mison 23:49 on 08 Sep 2003
- Chris Nandor 23:56 on 08 Sep 2003
- peter (Peter da Silva) 00:09 on 09 Sep 2003
Michael G Schwern 04:02 on 11 Sep 2003

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