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Article #3193Re: Towards a real, somewhat compatible multiTASKING TOS
From: Greg Lindahl
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 03:17
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 03:17
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In article <877@per2.UUCP> dag@per2.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes: >There's been a lot of chatter about multitasking on the ST, but no real >concrete proposals. It seems that many of the people in the debate are >not aware of the difference between a multitasking system and a multi-user >system. No, there is one concrete program out there (Beckmeyer's stuff) and Leo is working on another real system. And there are lots of people talking past each other about multitasking and multiuser and all that. Keep in mind that there is NO EASY WAY to add multitasking to GEM (the graphics part) such that you can have several gem applications going, but with a multitasking GEMDOS (which provides functions like MS-DOS), you could write a desk accessory that would allow you multiple multitasking CLIs along with 1 GEM application. It doesn't matter whether this is the most optimal solution, because this is what can be done without totally re-writing GEM. :-) :-) ------ Greg Lindahl gl8f@virginia.edu I'm not the NRA.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Towards a real, somewhat compatible multiTASKING TOS Message-ID: <1904@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 03:17:02 GMT References: <877@per2.UUCP> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 21