Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Applefest & GS/OS Message-ID: <8545@smoke.ARPA> Date: 20 Sep 88 20:57:26 GMT References: <8809190157.AA21394@crash.cts.com> <471NETOPRMS@NCSUVM> <17431@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 In article <17431@apple.Apple.COM> keith@apple.com.UUCP (Keith Rollin) writes: >No multi-tasking involved...But I don't think anyone would want that on a >2.8 MHz machine. Switching would be more practical, but that's not included >either. The original implementations of UNIX were run on less powerful processors, typically with less hard disk and less main memory. I assure you I do want multitasking, particularly so I can have a real toolkit environment instead of just a bunch of programs.