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you were spoilt by the Amiga's pre-emptive multitasking. It's funny I recall "pre-emptive multitasking" being a big selling point of the Amiga's OS, but I never
by stuff4ben 12y ago
you were spoilt by the Amiga's pre-emptive multitasking. It's funny I recall "pre-emptive multitasking" being a big selling point of the Amiga's OS, but I never understood it at the time, I just knew it was better.
- wslh 12y agoIn which project (i) or (ii) ? On (i) I took advantage of the preemptive multitasking being able to use the computer by two people in the same computer monitor. On (ii) I knew that the Amiga was superior than a PC but I had access to more documentation and better programming languages (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++) on the PC. In the Amiga you ended up doing multimedia stuff with a lot of hardware information about the coprocessors and DMA while in the PC was more straightforward.