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You could do preemptive multitasking with memory protection on a 286. IBM & MS did it in OS/2. Actually looks like Xenix used that too. http://www.tenox.net/do
by zurn 13y ago
You could do preemptive multitasking with memory protection on a 286. IBM & MS did it in OS/2.
Actually looks like Xenix used that too. http://www.tenox.net/docs/microsoft_xenix_30_286_press_release.pdf http://www.tenox.net/docs/microsoft_xenix_30_286_press_relea...
- wildgift 13y agoReally? I though OS/2 was on the 386. I thought that the 286 had some limit on the size of a process, but you could execute multiple processes. I don't know why, but I think it was 64k per process. Also, the other thing I recall was thinking that it was a nice idea. I was only familiar with 68k so I'm probably wrong here.
- zurn 13y agoReally. The 286 is a 16-bit CPU so there would have been various memory limits. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=313 http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=313 has some details on what it can do, but not much mention of limits...