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>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Welch <tlwitness@juno.com> writes:

    Jerry> We ALL know that Amiga invented TRUE pre-emptive
    Jerry> multi-tasking, they ALSO had the first 32 bit OS.

Sorry Charlie, but pre-emptive multitasking was invented as the reason
to invent the interrupt, which first appeared in modern form on the GE
600 series of machines in the late 1960's, long before the
microprocessor was invented.  Remember, Multics was what inspired
Unix!

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