[Gllug] Beagle Board

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:48:21PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> In their defense, early PC Hardware did not include the necessary
> circuitry to permit preemptive multitasking.

Nonsense.

Minix did preemptive multitasking just fine on 8086s.

The segmented memory architecture even gave Minix a degree of memory
protection, at least from accidental corruption (of course it didn't
protect you at all from deliberate manipulation, but that's not such a
problem on a system with 640K of RAM and no network).

Rich.

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