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AmigaOS and the Multimedia Operating System Built for Preemptive Multitasking

AmigaOS paired a small preemptive multitasking kernel with message passing, a graphical interface and specialized multimedia hardware, giving a 1985 home computer capabilities that felt unusually concurrent.

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