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Did Mac and PC users know what preemptive multitasking was in 1985?
by amichail 2y ago
Did Mac and PC users know what preemptive multitasking was in 1985?
- wmf 2y agoMostly no. People didn't have access to the Internet so most of their computer knowledge came from books or magazines but those tended to be siloed by platform. Even a "power user" who subscribed to PC World or MacUser wouldn't know much about Amiga or Unix.
- zdw 2y agoByte was probably the most cross-platform magazine at time, and even then there were only so many pages to cover things - it ended up being mostly PC, Mac, and Unix workstations, IIRC.