🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, I've listened to all this long enough!

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.  [ stuff deleted ]
>
>Changes to TOS for application driven multitasking might include the following:

 [ list of new TOS features deleted ]

Has anyone ever heard of Micro RTX?  RTX implements the things Daniel and
others have listed, and more.   RTX is multitasking TOS, with many
other multitasking extensions too.

I'm amazed how someone can bring up multitasking and there can be this much
discussion, yet in real life people don't even know what's already out there.
People start saying how badly they want multitasking, but when I offered
to make RTX binary free if someone would just write a simple application
to give away with it, nobody was interested.

Everybody wanted me to give away RTX, but noone would offer to spend a liitle
of their own precious and valuable time and energy to make it happen.

Anyway if you people are really interested in multitasking TOS, the offer
still stands.   If someone will show they are serious and write a RTX
based application program (e.g. a nifty freebie shell that knows how to
fork jobs, maybe use interprocess communications, print spooler, etc.),
I will release the RTX binaries for public consumtion, along with this
program.  This seems fair to me.

But no, most of you will just wait for somebody else to do the work for you.

Not Leo though.   Here's a man who does more than talk (as far as I can tell).
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