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Re: CBM engineer Bil Herd to attend CommVEx 2015
« on: May 11, 2015, 06:20:58 PM »
Quote from: Iggy;789091

First, multi-tasking on an Amiga appears to be cooperative rather than priority based.


Amiga is pure round-robin priority based multi-tasking; meaning that programs with priority 1 will starve programs with priority 0.

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Second, stability seemed to be an issue.
That is a polite way of saying they were crash prone.


This because of the lack of memory protection. Making a cheap machine at that time with a m68k with MMU was not possible.
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