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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Towards a real, somewhat compatible multiTASKING TOS
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Date: 17 Aug 89 03:17:02 GMT
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In article <877@per2.UUCP> dag@per2.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
>There's been a lot of chatter about multitasking on the ST, but no real
>concrete proposals.  It seems that many of the people in the debate are
>not aware of the difference between a multitasking system and a multi-user
>system.

No, there is one concrete program out there (Beckmeyer's stuff) and
Leo is working on another real system. And there are lots of people
talking past each other about multitasking and multiuser and
all that. Keep in mind that there is NO EASY WAY to add multitasking
to GEM (the graphics part) such that you can have several gem
applications going, but with a multitasking GEMDOS (which provides
functions like MS-DOS), you could write a desk accessory that would
allow you multiple multitasking CLIs along with 1 GEM application.

It doesn't matter whether this is the most optimal solution, because
this is what can be done without totally re-writing GEM. :-) :-)

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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.