Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius2.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Multiasking on //GS? Message-ID: <1051@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 13:08:56 EST Article-I.D.: ius2.1051 Posted: Wed Jan 14 13:08:56 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 03:01:29 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 21 Apple doesn't seem interested in supporting it, presumably for marketing reasons. Has anybody given any though to supporting a multitasking OS on the //GS? It seems a shame to have so much power and not be able to fully utilize it. A 6809-based Tandy Color Computer can do multiasking under the OS-9, has anybody though of what sort of ProDOS extensions would be needed to support multitasking? Even a constraint like restricting tasks to fit in one 64K bank of memory would still allow useful applcations to be developed. (It might even be worth retrofitting to the //e if you had the right kind of bank-switched expanded memory card (AE or Checkmate could support a separate task in each bank of 64K, even the Apple extended-80 col card might support one additional task.) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 268-2847 [CMU-BUGS], 268-3275 Amateur Radio: KA3PLY temporary KT (c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA)