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In article <4675ca0d.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:

[ responding to a question about TT multitasking ]

>Nope, it does NOT multitask.

J. Townsend has announced that 3rd party Unix will be available "RSN".
Unix multitasks. It's entirely possible that David Beckmeyer could
produce a TOS multitasker that could multitask as well on the TT as
MTC does on the ST. However, multitasking ST programs in general is
quite a complex problem.

The TT has 2 markets:

1) Upgraded ST -- singletasking, runs GEM, fast.
2) Unix box. System V binary-compatible, nice fast colour display,
   ram above 2 megs uses burst cache fill so it's relatively fast.
   This is the future.

> This has been mentioned by John Townsend et al
>on GEnie in the past.

John also talked about Unix. Unix multitasks, eh?

> The TT will simply be a faster ST with slightly
>better graphics.

To market # 1, TT will be this. It's an upgrade path for the ST. For
market # 2, the TT will be quite different. It will be a box capable
of running Unix programs distributed as source as well as 680x0 binary-
standard applications. Instant software base.

I hope that Richard doesn't buy one so that he won't tell us all about
it. Actually, I wish Richard would benchmark TeX on his SLM804 against
an HP Laserjet and then tell us how bad the SLM804 is.

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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.