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: <485@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 00:16:15 GMT References: <8908021826.AA05333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <62441@linus.UUCP> <4050@hall.cray.com> <62828@linus.UUCP> <968@otto.lvsun.com> Reply-To: johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) Organization: NCR Distributed Systems Laboratory Lines: 30 In article <968@otto.lvsun.com> rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff) writes: > >I don't see why it should cost more than about $20 to implement a >reasonable memory management scheme on a personal computer like the >Atari ST or the Amiga. I agree. So everyone send me $20 and I'll do it. :) :) :) >It would be real nice to have, especially for >software developers. This kind of personal computer really doesn't >need it though. I seem to crash each computer equally as often when >writing code for them. It takes longer to reboot the Amiga though. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Try using the Amiga warm-bootable ramdisk, or a hard drive :). Do Atari ST's have a bootable ramdisk, or even a ramdisk whose contents survive a warm boot? A friend of mine with an ST would like to know. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.