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0 pointsTaniwha9y ago0 comments

Apple also shipped A/UX which did all that

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wmf9y ago

And was so expensive no one cared.

And this is probably the greatest inhibitor Unix had for its adoption.

They also shipped the Lisa prior to that, which also had protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. This died for other reasons however (too expensive, upstaged by the mac, etc).

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