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Amiga multitasking was actually preemptive. It was only cooperative in the sense that all processes / tasks were in the same address space and without memory pr

Amiga multitasking was actually preemptive. It was only cooperative in the sense that all processes / tasks were in the same address space and without memory protection...

jswny 6y ago
Between the preemptive multitasking and purely message-based communication it sounds a lot like Erlang.
- beagle3 6y ago
  Unlike erlang, though, when it crashed, it crashed. RIP Guru meditation.
  - icedchai 6y ago
    I learned C programming on an Amiga. It made me very careful. If you messed up, you were looking at the guru followed by a couple minutes for a reboot. Fun times...