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by mikepavone 309 days ago
As another commenter pointed out, you can do pre-emptive multitasking just fine without an MMU. And as it turns out AmigaOS had just that. All you need for pre-emptive multitasking is a suitable interrupt source to use for task switching.

What it did not have was memory protection or virtual memory. You do need an MMU for those.