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532: The Meat Part of Multitasking

Accidental Tech Podcast

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The Magic of Preemptive Multitasking

In OS 2, you could copy something from a floppy drive and go do something else. "That's what I knew the Mac needed a new operating system," says Torvalds. He switched to Mac in 2004 because it was so much better for his purposes than PCs. Now he has no patience for hardware that doesn't work very well or stuff that doesn't need to be done.

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