Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!tw-rnd!johnl From: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Multitasking on the ST Message-ID: <484@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 00:12:48 GMT References: <8908021826.AA05333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <15627@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <652@opal.tubopal.UUCP> <471@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1066@philmds.UUCP> <482@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1071@philmds.UUCP> <1035@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Reply-To: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) Organization: NCR Distributed Systems Laboratory Lines: 22 In article <1035@rex.cs.tulane.edu> hoang@rex.UUCP (Dzung Hoang) writes: > > For those who would like to experience multitasking on the ST, I would >recommend looking at minix ST available from Prentice-Hall for $79. It's a >"mini-unix" operating system. Subscribe to comp.os.minix for more info. > >Dzung Hoang OK thanks for the tip, but what many of us want, IMHO, is to run multiple ST programs simultaneously. Minix gives you a spartan Un*x-like environment, not a wonderful WIMP interface. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lindwall johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM "Above opinions are my own, not my employer's" Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lindwall johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM "Above opinions are my own, not my employer's" Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.