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[OT] Pre-emptive multi-tasking (was: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT])

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Tim Streater wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> cant you come up with something better than that? like " *nix had proper
>> pre-emptive multi tasking years before os9 and windows failed to
>> implement it correctly"
> 
> And plenty of OSes had it before unix.

No, according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-
emptive_multitasking#Systems_supporting_preemptive_multitasking> and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix>, Unix, at Bell Labs, was the first 
operating system to support *pre-emptive* _multi-tasking_, in 1969/1970 
(hence the Unix timestamp 0 equals 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) as an 
improvement to the time-sharing Multics (1964) where multi-tasking was first 
implemented.  Sinclair QDOS (1984) and Amiga OS (1985) and other operating 
systems (particularly the Unix-like ones) followed Unix in that regard.


PointedEars
-- 
Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the 
root of the knowledge tree you build on a particular subject, pruning the 
bad branches can sometimes cause the whole tree to collapse.
  -- Mike Duffy in cljs, <news:Xns9FB6521286DB8invalidcom@94.75.214.39>

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  Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 10:57 +0000
    Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 11:15 +0000
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    Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 17:31 +0000
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      Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 18:04 +0000
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          Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 19:42 +0000
            Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2013-03-28 21:38 +0000
              Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 22:30 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2013-03-29 08:44 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-29 12:59 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-29 13:18 +0000
                [OT] Pre-emptive multi-tasking (was: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT]) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-29 15:01 +0100
                Re: [OT] Pre-emptive multi-tasking (was: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT]) Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-29 16:57 +0000
                Re: [OT] Pre-emptive multi-tasking The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-29 17:13 +0000
                Re: [OT] Pre-emptive multi-tasking Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-29 17:20 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-29 14:41 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-03-29 16:36 +0000
                Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2013-03-29 13:57 +0000
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      Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-28 18:06 +0000
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