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Pommes, PaaS and Java on AWS

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The Amiga OS: A Multitasking Operating System

The Amiga had this very interesting graphics capabilities with the custom chipset, which you could use. And I wanted to implement something similar. Problem was at this time, um, the Amiga was, was basically a, a multitasking operating system, but, um, no memory protection. This means in C++, if you made a mistake, you could easily crash the whole system by just overwriting some memory blocks.

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