home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!aa399
- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 02:18:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <1gm3meINN8qk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec15.183040.25395@netcom.com> <1givnuINNir@katmandu.solbourne.com>
- Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu
-
-
- In a previous article, ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith) says:
-
- >In article <1givnuINNir@katmandu.solbourne.com> stevem@solbourne.com (Stephen Matson) writes:
- >> Is MiNT the defacto standard for multi-tasking on the st?
- >
- >It's not only the de facto standard for multitasking, it's also
- >the de jure standard (i.e. the official one). Or perhaps more
- >accurately I should say it's "going to be" the official standard,
- >since MultiTOS when it is released will use the MiNT kernel to
- >provide multitasking. (MultiTOS will also provide a much enhanced
- >AES and desktop which will have extensions to support multitasking).
-
- What about games?
-
- Will we be looking at games so sophisticated that they will be running
- three different parts of it at the same time?
-
- Maybe split screen two different games so that one person can play
- one side and another person can play another side?
-
- I guess I'm asking for too much. :)
-
- >
-
- --
-
-