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Terrific, but not sure about the ten years ahead. Let's not forget this was also the era of Atari ST and the birth of ARM with the incredible Acorn Archimedes
by mellosouls 3mo ago
Terrific, but not sure about the ten years ahead.
Let's not forget this was also the era of Atari ST and the birth of ARM with the incredible Acorn Archimedes arriving just a couple of years later.
- bluGill 3mo agoSomehow the Atari ST is panned because it lacked preemptive multitasking (I'm not sure if this is true). They didn't mention any of the other GUIs that unix was working with - X11 already existed back then, and several unix vendors had their own windowing system that was arguably better (at least their marketing said so - I never used any). Of course Unix systems would have been much more expensive.
- alexisread 3mo agoThe ST got preemptive multitasking in 92 AFAIK with MINT/Multitos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS