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- From: mppi76@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Harald Schoenfeld)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 11:08:07 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1gs7u7EINN4e2@uni-erlangen.de>
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- ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith) writes:
-
- >MultiTOS will certainly be available for any 68030 equipped Atari
- >machine (TT, Falcon, or ST with a 68030 upgrade board). It has not
- >yet been decided whether a 68000 version will be available; 68000s
- >don't have an MMU (so memory protection isn't possible) and also
- >are rather slow for doing serious multitasking, so I would really
- >recommend a 68030 for MultiTOS.
-
- It's true, MultiTOS is slow on STs. But we developed (!) programs on
- the ST using MultiTOS. So it is not too slow. (It is faster than
- Windows on a 386SX I think).
-
- There are some hundred thousand ST's out there in the world. Why should any
- programmer use MultiTOS's new features like pipes, submenues and so on if
- this would mean, that these programs will never work on all these STs?!
-
- --
- Harald Schoenfeld (hs@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de)
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