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To be fair, you did not boot into an OS those days, booted into a single threaded REPL with a library, a “slight” difference...
by walkingolof 8y ago
To be fair, you did not boot into an OS those days, booted into a single threaded REPL with a library, a “slight” difference...
- nicole_express 8y agoIn 1985, the Atari ST came out and that same year supported booting into its (single-tasking) GUI OS from ROM, quite a step up from the BASIC REPLs I assume you're referencing here.
- Kim_Bruning 8y agoIndeed O:-) You may have had to wait until as late as April 1989 to have a credibly decent GUI and (collective) multi-tasking straight from ROM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS#RISC_OS_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS#RISC_OS_2