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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by burfog on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:37PM (#16327345)
From 1991, Linux had preemptive multitasking.

The Amiga was exotic hardware, like the BeBox. If you want to include those, you might as well include SGI and Sun hardware. Preemptive multitasking was common on non-PC hardware.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by hota_mazi on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:48PM (#16333982)
Well yes and Minix had preemptive multitasking a decade before.

We're talking about consumer facing computers, and at the time, the market was pretty much only Windows, Mac, OS/2, Amiga and Atari.

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