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Re:The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive... by walkingolof on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:02AM (#17940272)
To be fair, you did not boot into an OS those days, booted into a single threaded REPL with a library, a “slight” difference...
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Re:The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive... by nicole_express on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:24AM (#17940574)
In 1985, the Atari ST came out and that same year supported booting into its (single-tasking) GUI OS from ROM, quite a step up from the BASIC REPLs I assume you're referencing here.
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Re:The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive... by Kim_Bruning on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:43AM (#17940623)
Indeed O:-) You may have had to wait until as late as April 1989 to have a credibly decent GUI and (collective) multi-tasking straight from ROM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS#RISC_OS_2

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