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From 1991, Linux had preemptive multitasking. The Amiga was exotic hardware, like the BeBox. If you want to include those, you might as well include SGI and Su
by burfog 9y ago
From 1991, Linux had preemptive multitasking.
The Amiga was exotic hardware, like the BeBox. If you want to include those, you might as well include SGI and Sun hardware. Preemptive multitasking was common on non-PC hardware.
- hota_mazi 9y agoWell yes and Minix had preemptive multitasking a decade before. We're talking about consumer facing computers, and at the time, the market was pretty much only Windows, Mac, OS/2, Amiga and Atari.