Re: Multitasking on the ST

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From: John Lindwall
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1989 00:12

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In article <1035@rex.cs.tulane.edu> hoang@rex.UUCP (Dzung Hoang) writes:
>
>    For those who would like to experience multitasking on the ST, I would
>recommend looking at minix ST available from Prentice-Hall for $79.  It's a
>"mini-unix" operating system.  Subscribe to comp.os.minix for more info.
>
>Dzung Hoang

OK thanks for the tip, but what many of us want, IMHO, is to run multiple
ST programs simultaneously.  Minix gives you a spartan Un*x-like 
environment, not a wonderful WIMP interface.  Please correct me if I'm
wrong.

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John Lindwall                            johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
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John Lindwall                            johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
           "Above opinions are my own, not my employer's"
   Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

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From: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall)
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Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST
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Date: 15 Aug 89 00:12:48 GMT
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