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From: cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: mx2 query
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Date: 15 Aug 89 14:30:27 GMT
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Well, I've been seeing tons of references to MX2 in the latest flurry
of multitask mania.  I'm curious...Does MX2 allow you to multitask ANY
program or just the small set that comes with it?  I'd find it useful if
I could do some thing like:  Run UniTerm as one task (downloading a file),
unARC the file as a separate task, and during this time format a disk as a 
third task.  I often start d/ling a file and then realize I don't have space 
on any disks.  This is when I kick myself for not having some way to have
that idle disk drive format a new disk while I'm using the cpu for other
things.  I've seen this done on an Amiga relatively easily.

Also, how does MX2 measure up to the multitasking environment written by
Dave Beckermeyer (sp??)?  Enquiring minds want to know. :-)


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