Re: Multi-tasking

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From: Harald Schoenfeld
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:08

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ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith) writes:

>MultiTOS will certainly be available for any 68030 equipped Atari
>machine (TT, Falcon, or ST with a 68030 upgrade board). It has not
>yet been decided whether a 68000 version will be available; 68000s
>don't have an MMU (so memory protection isn't possible) and also
>are rather slow for doing serious multitasking, so I would really
>recommend a 68030 for MultiTOS.

It's true, MultiTOS is slow on STs. But we developed (!) programs on
the ST using MultiTOS. So it is not too slow. (It is faster than
Windows on a 386SX I think).

There are some hundred thousand ST's out there in the world. Why should any 
programmer use MultiTOS's new features like pipes, submenues and so on if
this would mean, that these programs will never work on all these STs?!

-- 
Harald Schoenfeld (hs@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de)

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