It enabled true pre-emptive multitasking in as little as 256 kB of free memory.

But he insists that true multitasking is a myth.

One interesting point was that background multi-tasking on the iphone isn't true multitasking.

The operating system supports true multitasking - operations can run in the background without going into sleep mode.

The move to Microsoft Windows 95/98 was painful because these operating systems did not provide true multitasking.

The Magic W3 provides true windowed multitasking, multimedia entertainment, social network connectivity, navigation capability, voice telephony, and the full internet experience.

So far I have seen no indication of true multitasking; that you can run any two Android apps in any combination on either screen.

It sounds like it doesn't have true multitasking at all.

These fall into what I called a small subset of background functionality allowed by iOS 4 - still not true multitasking.

Geneva could however be run together with MiNT, then offering true pre-emptive multitasking.