Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!portal!atari!good From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS--Whats next?? Message-ID: <1172@atari.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 16:20:00 GMT References: <948@aluxz.UUCP> Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 15 in article <948@aluxz.UUCP>, wao@aluxz.UUCP (William Oswald) says: > > I've been reading about TOS 1.4 on the net for awhile and it sounds > good to me but I would like to ask Alan and Roy a question. This > might have been covered already but --- can we expect a multitasking > version of TOS in the future? > > Bill Oswald known as wao@aluxz Possibly, but not in the near future, from Atari. The TOS 1.4 clean-up gives us the source baseline for near-future processor-line expansion. Resources will address that issue first. Multiuser operating systems in the form of UNIX System V.3.1 (tm's for AT&T) for 32-bit products, and the already/imminently available OS/9 and Minix for the 16-bit. Roy Good/Atari