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Page http://www.symbos.de/facts.htm, end of the third paragraph "Real preemptive Multitasking, a dynamic memory-management for up to 576K and more and a totaly MS-Windows-like GUI are the three most important things."

The previous sentence is "I want to give everything to SymbOS what a modern OS needs.", so I read that as being a statement of what the developer wants the OS to have in the future.

Further down the page, in the details section, it states "Priority based preemptice [sic] and cooperative multitasking" is done. Wikipedia mentions that a combination of preemptive and cooperative task management is used [1]. I'm confused.

(And just to be clear: I'm not trying to be negative. I'm very impressed with the technology and tenacity of the author.)




I'm not sure preemptive multitasking is a good idea for a Z80 anyway. You can either run one program slowly, or two at a snail's pace.

At least it can address enough memory to make it not a complete waste.




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