Word: multitask
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Matt Howitt is correct ("Tech Talk," Apr. 26) in noting that preemptive multitasking "has existed for a long time," but he omits mentioning IBM's Time Sharing System (TSS) Model 360/67, which used a multitask environment, and paging of memory to create virtual memory. It too was created in the 1960s...