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From: fgbrooks@crash.cts.com (Fred Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: mx2 query
Message-ID: <215@crash.cts.com>
Date: 17 Aug 89 02:13:54 GMT
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Reply-To: fgbrooks@.UUCP (Fred Brooks)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article  you write:
>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. :-)

MX2 will run most "well behaved" TOS programs. TOS being programs that
use the BIOS I/O calls. I use it to run a BBS "STADEL" program or uucall 
"a uucp type
program for unix mail" in background. As MX2 is a PD program, MTC shell
or RTX by Beckermeyer may be a better product but MX2 comes with the
complete source. BTW I wrote MX2 and would be glad to give you a copy of
the latest version to play with. Or if you use GENIE look for files
11360 and 11361 in the atari archives. I think a copy of a older version
is in the atari archives here. 

Fred brooks
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