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From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli)
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Subject: Re: Amiga & Mindset
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Date: 10 Aug 88 01:45:31 GMT
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[ Dave Haynie mentions that even a C-64 could multitask ]

Durring the ol' VIC-20 days my sister Mary was going to Yale and met a
person named Chris Lane (I don't know if you are on the net, Chris, if
you are... "Hello!") and he was a VIC-20 users also.  Chris pushed
that machine into doing things that nobody would believe if they
weren't shown.  We exchanged tapes (yes, remember tapes?) of programs
we had written and one of the programs enabled the VIC-20 to
multitask.

Each program had to put a call in it's main loop to a m/l routine that
would swap page 0, 1, and the stack (page 2), and the registers, etc.
He also hacked out a split-screen that flickers horribly (the ol' VIC
wasn't meant to split screen, eh?) but it all worked.  I remember his
demo programs included a program that printed primes while another
program did a little animation (character based).

So next time someone says that "even [list of computers] multitasks to
some extent", please include the VIC-20.

And Chris, if you read the net, please contact me.  I would like to
know where you are now.

Tom
-- 
Tom Limoncelli

Currently using crutches and in great pain, but still available at:
limonce@pilot.njin.net		"Remember all the great times we had?"
tlimonce@drew.bitnet		"Yeah... was that *you*?"
tlimonce%drew@cunyvm.cuny.edu
"The opinions expressed above are mine... just mine."
(Hey Eric!  Remember when I was so proud to finally be on a net and your 
reply was, "Bitnet?  Ok... tell me when you get on a real net"?  Well,
look at the new signature!  A real net!  Right on the internet!  See! See!
It's also reachable via limonce@njin.rutgers.edu.  Ok Eric?  )