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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
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In article <968@otto.lvsun.com> rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff) writes:
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>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!


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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.

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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.