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Questions regarding running more than one task concurrently on a retrocomputer.
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What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?
Threads seem to have first appeared in IBM's mainframe operating system OS/360 MVT in 1967, although they were called "tasks" at the time.
MP/M (1981) allowed a process to create additional sub-proces …
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Examples of operating systems using hardware task switching of x86 CPUs
iRMX III is a real-time operating system for Intel 80386 and later processors, originally developed by Intel and now maintained by tenAsys. A quick look at the System Call Reference manual reveals tha …