(g)olden days

["Steve (yfnpa)" <GTEpost@I-AGREE-TO-PAYthe-firm.com>]

Recently I got into a debate over whether early personal computers (like the
Apple ][) had multi-tasking programs.  I said they did although I guessed
back in the late 70s it would have been done manually in a stand alone game
.  I couldn't think of an example, though (anyone know of an example?).

This got me interested learning about the origins of mutli-tasking and
multi-threading.  It seems so easy to implement it nowadays.  I'd like to
learn about how/when/where it all started.  Does anyone have any suggestions
of where to find some good information / FAQs on this ?

Thanks in advance.  Sorry for the cross-post.  Also, I tried sending a
similar message on the 4th, but it appears it did not go through;  so, if
you get this twice, sorry twice!

-Steve

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