Memory Management Units were a big thing for C langage multitasking.
How do you figure? The article outlines MMU development since well before C, it's not like people came up with memory protection because of C.
How do you figure? The article outlines MMU development since well before C, it's not like people came up with memory protection because of C.
(On the other hand, the B5000 had hardware memory protection despite being programmed in Algol. The B5000 inspired Smalltalk, which inspired Oberon and Java. But its memory protection didn't use an MMU.)
GUI environments of the 80s all brought multitasking with them, and system stability was mediocre to very bad... All writers pointed to memory protection as the cure of all this. See also Mac os history for a more detailed usecase.
Rising software size and complexity made the industry abandon assembly programming for higher level languages and for GUI apps this quickly meant C/C++.