Tiny point about multitasking:
Windows got multitasking of a kind with '95 but it wasn't pre-emptive. Before that it was just task swapping. NT was pre-emptive I think.
MacOS got it with MacOS X... I don't think even MacOS 9 had pre-emptive multi-tasking.
Workbench 1.0 was multitasking in 1984.
However, the Sinclair QL was multitasking at that time too (1985ish)...
... and before even that the 6809-based micros such as the Dragon 64 and CoCo IIIs (I think) were running OS-9 which had pre-emptive multi-tasking.
In other words, the Amiga was the first
mainstream computer to have multitasking, but not the first home computer. Windows, of course, was waaay behind, followed only by Macintoshes.
Here endeth the lesson.
